Server Geek at Gartner with stints at Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and HPE.
Texas, USA
Joined September 2009
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Most compelling speaker at @CoreWeave #FullyConnected26 is @JensonButton, whose job is to drive a car. (Admittedly he's good at it.)
Brian Venturo (@CoreWeave Chief Strategy Officer) said their financial innovation was just as important as their technical innovation
#FullyConnected26
CoreWeave: Volta GPUs are still in production...just for different use cases than originally. #FullyConnected26
Ian Buck of NVIDIA on stage at #FullyConnected26 talking about...CPUs! "We build the best CPUs"
"Valvey," a liquid flow management infrastructure with a design goal of flexibility and rapid data center buildout. #FullyConnected26
Peter Salanki, on being CoreWeave's CTO: "You can get into a lot of trouble for what you say." Five minutes later, answering a question about Coreweave's biggest problems: "Well, we need more money." #FullyConnected26
I'm at CoreWeave #FullyConnected26 this week, learning what's next for this neocloud. 5,000 registered attendees; for context, that's more than were at VMware Explore this year.
An IQM sales manager told me that a good indicator that a commercial company is progressing on their quantum computing journey is not that they know how QC works, it's that they can articulate a viable and relevant QC use case.
A Cray-1 Supercomputer 50th anniversary commemorative coin is a good way to bribe compute analysts. Just sayin'.
I haven't heard many mentions of AMD at HPE Discover, but what is mentioned is big. (Physically big.)
One surprising vendor at the HPE Discover exhibition hall is @Core_Scientific. Also, I remember when bitcoin miners mined bitcoin.
How vital is power efficiency? In memory chips, 1 volt is now considered high voltage
I spoke with a lot of people at Computex about DDR6 and LPDDR6. Luckily @gavbon86 had his head in the ISSCC papers to find out what Samsung and SK Hynix are up to. Here's the breakdown.
open.substack.com/pub/moreth…
Working with the SPEC CPU committee on this benchmark has been one of my greatest joys. Thank you to all my colleagues for letting me help. spec.org/cpu2026/
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We are proud to announce that the following 5 students have been recognized as 2025 National Merit Scholarship Program Semifinalists: Alexander Gibson, Luke Bowers, Hannah Yang, Leonardo Fazzini, and Salvador Munoz.
This honor places them among the top 1 % of all HS students!
MLPerf is SPEC CPU2025.
1/ The @MLCommons @MLPerf Training v5.0 results are here—Let’s have a fresh look at the state of large-scale AI training! This round set a new record: 201 performance results from across the industry.
🔗mlcommons.org/2025/06/mlperf…
Sovereignity accounts for only 7% of geographic restrictions placed on server workloads. User latency accounts for 15%. Half the time, the reason is simply "because that's where we always put stuff." (Microsoft study on internal workloads, 2025) dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36761…
