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boegel

@boegel@mast.hpc.social

HPC user support @ Ghent University, Belgium - EasyBuild BDFL - EESSI contributor - partner in MultiXscale EuroHPC Centre of Excellence - FOSDEM frequent visitor - family guy - likes beer, loud music, open source software, and stickers

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boegel, to hpc
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Miquel Pericàs (Chalmers University of Technology) did a great job during his keynote presentation at the 9th EasyBuild User Meeting in Sweden.

RISC-V is coming, and the European #HPC community is working hard to prepare for it via projects like EUPILOT & co.

https://easybuild.io/eum24/#program

simon, to random
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Released a plugin for using the new Claude 3 models from Anthropic with my LLM CLI tool: https://llm.datasette.io/

pipx install llm
llm install llm-claude-3
llm keys set claude

paste Anthropic API key here

llm -m claude-3-opus '3 fun facts about pelicans'
llm -m claude-3-opus '3 surprising facts about walruses'

https://github.com/simonw/llm-claude-3

boegel,
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@simon I can’t help but wonder what your monthly spend is on API access to various LLMs…

boegel, to random
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Bot action in the hallway track at #FOSDEM

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boegel, to random
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The hallway track at #FOSDEM is just as great as the devrooms & co: you always run into old friends, or pass by people you’ve been following online.

I bumped into Kathy Giori, who was part of FOSDEM Junior. She demonstrated the bot that was used during the workshop with the kids, which is controlled via a micro:bit and programmed via MicroBlocks (https://microblocks.fun).

@fosdem I hope we’ll see FOSDEM Junior again next year!

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boegel, to random
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What do you do if an excellent speaker like @vsoch can’t make it to #FOSDEM?
You look figure out high-tech solutions to show the pre-recorded talk in the devroom, like putting a mic on a laptop speaker to get amplified sound in the room…

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boegel,
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@lanodan We didn’t want to mess with the cabling and cause trouble.
Sometimes the obvious low-tech approach is the best one :)

boegel, to hpc
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Call for Participation for the HPC, Big Data, and Data Science devroom at FOSDEM'24 is now available at https://hpc-bigdata-fosdem24.github.io .

Submission deadline is Friday 1 Dec 2023, which is really tight but submissions are very lightweight (basically talk title + short description, no papers).

Join us in Brussels on Saturday 3 Feb 2024 for the 10th edition of this devroom (if you count the “pure" HPC devroom at FOSDEM'12 as the first one).

Please boost!

#HPC @fosdem

geerlingguy, to random
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I've spent far too much time this week working with ATLAS, OpenBLAS, and Blis, and still don't have a strong opinion about any one of them lol

Except that I still hate algebra

boegel,
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@geerlingguy Oh tell us more why you’re deep diving into this!

bagder, to random
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"curl: ‐‐connect‐timeout is weirdly broken"

Using funny unicode letters instead of ascii can give you weird-looking results.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1043309

boegel,
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@bagder I once spent hours on trying to figure out why a tool claimed to not support an option, while its own help out clearly listed it, because I was unknowingly using these unicode dash-like characters by copy-pasting from somewhere.
The next time something like this happened, many years later, with ~ (shortcut for home directory in Linux CLI, which claimed there was no such file or directory), I was a lot quicker to realise what was going on…

b0rk, to random
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what helps people get comfortable on the command line? https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/08/08/what-helps-people-get-comfortable-on-the-command-line-/

Would love more stories of things that helped you in the last ~5 years!

(as usual, no need to reply if you don’t remember, or if you’ve been using the command line comfortably for 15 years — this question isn’t for you :) )

boegel,
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@b0rk We often need to teach scientists the basic of using a supercomputer, where being comfortable with the Linux command line is still an essential skill (although projects like Open OnDemand to also provide a web portal are changing that a bit).
For me, it’s two things:

  1. Incentive: show them how you can be way more efficient using a CLI compared to a GUI for basic tasks. I think it’s important that people fully realise how powerful it is, especially when dealing with lots of files.
civodul, to random
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Good news everyone⸮ CMake finally has its own package manager:
https://github.com/cpm-cmake/CPM.cmake

(Seriously though, my thoughts go to fellow packagers: you’re not alone, united we stand, together we’ll suffer.)

boegel,
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@civodul Stop making package managers cry please, please, I was only kidding around in my FOSDEM’18 talk…

bagder, to random
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That pain in your soul you experience when you realize there's a horrible regression in your newly released package. It's not nice.

boegel,
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@bagder Time to ditch the computer, and start a goat farm? 🐐

boegel, to random
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When a Belgian arrives back in his home land after visiting a foreign land for a week, it is impossible to resist…

Fries are next, as soon as I actually make it home

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