Aspire Higher: Innovating at Super Computing 22

little bit to do with super Computing um I actually I don't know how many times I've been to the show I've been more than a few but uh yeah it's gonna be really good and and very interesting excellent Mr God love how are you pretty good how you doing Zane good to see you again so yeah I'm Dave God love I'm Dave number two today so and Dr Dave's already taken so I guess I'll have to go by like Dr G love or something um in any case uh yeah so I am a Solutions architect uh here at ciq I'm looking forward to the show

looking forward to talking about and demonstrating some of our new products it's great I think I think I like the DJ name that's good Dr Dilo oh all right Forest welcome hey everyone my name is Forrest Burt I'm a high performance Computing systems engineer here at ciq I've been with ciq since June of 2021 and this will be my first SC as well uh like many here so I'm thrilled to see the show and uh meet the whole team that we have going so very exciting stuff thank you for Jonathan good to see you uh this is not my first show I also do nope

oh you're good we got you now can you hear me yeah we do okay it's also not my first show uh but I'm excited to go back uh it's it's been a while because you know out for covet and whatnot I'm I'm glad to finally be excited to go to SC again because it had kind of gotten to be a bit much for a little bit but yeah it'll be great to be there thank you Jonathan and the last Dave last but not least yes well um yep I'm Dave Leduc I started in July I have a a pretty excessive open source background but HPC

is new to me so this will be my first uh SC event I'm looking forward to we put a lot of work into planning it and uh just uh you can send a lot of people and I'm excited to meet this um audience meet the market get to know people get to know what their their problems and interests are so it's going to be great great thanks Dave all right Brock tell us what is super Computing what is this thing well um again because we we have a lot of people on the call that's going to be their first time and it's really starts Monday

night with uh welcome to the chaos it's the opening Gala kicks it all off and it's literally it's the only thing that's going on so everybody is there it's very crowded it's very loud it's very noisy um and and everybody is is you know flowing through the the show floor which is you know it is a very large conference and I expect this year Well I probably won't be back to Peak attendance because of the pandemic I think this is going to be the first year in in the past two or three that you're going to see closer to full attendance so that that chaos

I expect to be back in in full force uh and it's um I forget which Dave said it one of them said it I think um there's always so much to learn and it's uh you know it's a great time you get a lot of researchers so you get to hear you know everything from professors and students what their projects are what they're working on what the science is behind what they're doing but it's also there's a number of commercial customers there people who are buying and using super Computing but it's also a great player across the HPC industry uh all the people you work

with have worked with in the past are there and it's a lot of cross collaborations uh meeting up with people that you worked with over the phone for years and years uh it's the one time of year where almost everybody gets a chance to be face to face and actually really get a chance to have those conversations that can dramatically Advance forward a project or collaboration or something of that nature so um it is a it's a sight to to be seen it's different than a lot of conferences that I've gone to uh super Computing seems to be in a class by itself and again

the the size and the amount of participation you have is is pretty impressive and Brock display brings people in from all over the globe this is not just a United States Canada or North America I think this is oh absolutely and then absolutely there there are yeah go ahead there's two you keep talking keep going keep going it's it's the delay it's the delay we have so there's two primary super commuting conferences that are of really good size but this uh both are international um this one does bring people around the globe again there are still some travel restrictions in place so you won't have

the full contingent but you can expect people from I would say at least six continents around the world uh and you never know there could be some somebody that's technically uh uh working on the seventh continent in this space and it's all disciplines that you know are in research Computing scientific Computing uh artificial intelligence and we kind of had a joke going you know AI is a big part of HPC uh some people like myself would call it HPC or an HPC workload um but it's it's everything under the sun that is really related to uh parallel Computing all the way up through the biggest

in and most powerful systems on the planet the most power efficient systems on the planet uh you know everything is there it's a it's a great chance to see all kinds of different technologies that feed into HPC that's created yeah super duty is a great conference really looking forward to be present for all thank you Greg I think we're all looking forward to seeing you there too so you said you have been before right yeah I've been to SC several times um yeah uh probably three or four not totally sure so I've I've heard Brock talk about the gala and that's that's a big chaotic

event what is your experience with the gala that opening night it was a lot of fun the gala is um you know it's it's the uh it's it's it's everybody is on the edge of their seat and super excited because the conference is just kicking off and just starting and it's your opportunity to sort of dive in and um you know there's just there's electricity in the air um there are beers and hands um and you know everybody's just having a good time and and getting really excited about all the stuff that they're gonna see in the upcoming days um it's just a it's a

it's a really it's it's a it's a very exciting and fun time but it's also a time to start it to kind of um get yourself into gear and start to look around and see um you know the things that you're going to be visiting over the next few days start to talk to people um start to you know get the juices flowing and get those those ideas turning in your head as far as like who you're going to be talking to and what kinds of ideas you're going to be going over and everything it's just really um it's a cool way to start the

conference so Jonathan do you see that that Gala Knight as the time to kind of walk the floor and see where people are going to spend time the next day or is that a time where people start diving in do you think I I personally haven't differentiated the gala myself in the past I think it's just the first day of the existence there's there's more and I I don't mean like the the next day is more like more focused it's just another exhibit floor day for me uh but you know I I'm more about zeroing in on specific people that are there like an exhibitor

that I've wanted to talk with or uh someone I had heard of but didn't know much about and trying to have those kind of small longer term conversations you know as long a term as you can on a show floor like that but trying to meet people and you know there's a lot of that going on on that first night uh there might be um you know people excited to show off their new demo or something like that there's all of that kind of stuff I've also really enjoyed in the past I don't know if this happens every time but when it was in Denver

uh it was I was really glad that there was a family day too and I was able to I live in the area and was able to bring my my kids in there too and everyone had their demos and you know all their swag and all that stuff out just to show off their their product their brand and and talk about what uh what they're excited about doing in the most visually appealing way possible very cool so no we ciq are gonna to have some things that we're going to talk about we obviously have a booth Booth 521 stop by say hi we'd love to

talk to you more but I would like to ask and I'll start with Forest what are some of the things that we're going to be showing and talking about well we've got a lot to talk about at SC on a lot to show off there um our biggest things that we're going to be discussing are our four different products that we have in the HBC sphere obtainer werewolf Rocky Linux and Oswald um you know obtain our container for our containers for HPC um werewolf node provisioning and cluster management for HPC Rocky Linux the fastest growing Enterprise operating system and also the growing choice of super

Computing centers worldwide and uh you know just in general HPC sites both large and small um I think I heard recently uh tack switch to it but someone correct if I'm wrong on that um so yeah really really exciting stuff um it's it yeah we've also got fuzzball which is of course uh our kind of HPC orchestration HPC 2.0 layer um that we're really excited to show off uh in the capabilities that we can there and talk about kind of our vision for the next generation of HPC so we've got all that we've got you know obviously a lot of very talented Engineers very talented

people coming there and um yeah got a lot of great demos a lot of great material um all kinds of awesome information to show off because we do have one question somebody's asking what is Family Day in Jonathan you started something here what is Family Day and do people actually bring their kids so at least on that time and I've mentioned this to other people and they've seen baffled by it so I guess I don't know if it's every year but that year they had a an evening where the exhibit floor was open to outside guests and people could bring uh their children and their

spouse you know whatever else to come and see the floor which was great because I'd been there a number of times and it's difficult to convey the scale and activity of a show like SC even if you've been to other trade shows it really is Essie was the first trade show I'd ever been to so other shows have not lived up to that standard uh but to be able to you know share that with the people in my family who had heard me tell stories about it all the time uh but hadn't ever been able to experience it was great the kids you know walked

away with someone was giving away little micro controllers and took them to see tape robots moving around and all things like that that's very cool uh thanks Dave for putting that the bonus not one of the days on the screen actually pointed out it is this year from four to six pm and they they do have that every year and I think um I think it's probably under publicized but it's a fantastic way for people who not not just you know kids but but spouses friends who don't know what HPC is and and how it affects them to actually bring them on in in their

are so many good displays going on like I said all kinds of science you know weather modeling uh climate modeling um you know you'll see you'll see some of the traditional HPC structures like car crashes and things but there's so much technology that it can be inspiring just to see it and as Jonathan said the the show floor is massive it's a big show so it's a great opportunity and they do I think it is Wednesday of every year as as was said very good so one of the things I want to understand from everybody here I know everybody has their own things that they're

looking forward to and I'm going to start with Ian what are you looking to get out of SC this year um well I'd say first and foremost um I've been a member of a community or open source Community around octainer for several years now and the nature of those communities are everyone works with whatever organization they're employed at and everyone's distributed around the globe and they're submitting PRS and interacting over slack or maybe Zoom calls and so several of the people in the community I know will be at SCS I'm looking forward to finally meet them face to face and talk to them in person

uh for the first time when I've been working with them for for years now um I'd also just say in general I've heard a lot about just the variety of technology and um work that people are going to be displaying at SC so I'm just looking forward to being exposed to all of that um yeah sounds like it's something that you just have to experience very good Mr Dickerson I'm gonna pick on you next what are you looking forward to getting out of this I'm looking to expose not only Rocky but ciq to to more potential Partners in the world um so you know today

we just had a huge announcement with uh a Tempo who's uh went and certified their Solution on Rocky so you know customers of of all shapes and sizes know that that's that their tools and solutions are are validated or run on Rocky you know we did that with them which is great I'm I'm looking to be able to engage with um everybody out there because I understand that you know we we fit a very specific piece and an overall solution and other companies bring their parts to it and at the end of the day we solve a problem that customers are trying to solve for

individually so to be able to actually get out there and engage with those in this space um because my background has been more in storage than in HPC so to be able to engage with companies who are focused on this particular vertical yeah it's it's super exciting and we get to do it in person in real life um not just over Zoom that is exciting that on a has been too long has been too long Justin what are you looking forward to on this well it's been a long time since I was in the HPC World probably two plus decades uh and so a lot

has changed I can only imagine um so I'm looking forward to kind of getting first of all in front of people again that's I probably can't be under uh understated or overstated either way I can't wait uh also just to kind of understand where technology is uh where what are other vendors doing what are people doing um what are the researchers doing that's another area I've never even you know kind of explored in my career so uh just yeah all of that is uh really exciting to me thank you Justin Rose yeah I'm really excited even just hearing you guys talk about it I've never

been to SC ever I've been to um a different conference a couple years ago but it was you know from what you guys are saying and I saw the map and all the people that are going to be there and I'm like wow how am I even gonna get to every single Booth I don't even think that there's probably a tithe even in the three or four days that we're going to be there um but yeah it's exciting to get together in person and see what other people are doing and how we can help each other because that's how ideas grow right like we bounce

ideas off of each other and then we get to go oh my god I didn't even see that as a problem I didn't even realize that there was already a solution that what are you doing okay well if that's not a problem anymore what else can we do and it just is like a really exciting time and a really energy app I'm really looking forward to being there great thank you Rose that's truly Duke what are you people call me Dave you can call me Dave um anyway uh I'm similar I think to what Justin and Rose said I'm super interested just to get with

people and that includes ciq people uh you know since I've started and you know I've met a lot of people at the company on on Zoom but I think it's really important for us to kind of encounter each other in real life and we'll be doing that and that'll be very good I think we're sending over 20 people to this show which is a pretty big showing for a company of our size um and when we were originally planning the show the numbers seemed on the large side to me um you know given just our our presence overall but I think it's going to be

great I think we're going to have a lot of great connections in the market I'm looking to make my own I really want to meet the the the people that attend understand better what their problems are understand better what research they're doing how we can help I want to understand how they perceive our our products today our brand as a company we're still small still new so I'm going to be very interested to hear people's impressions of of uh where they think we are and uh clearly what kind of problems we can solve in their world that's really crucial so um I think it's going

to be really interesting from that perspective just to be exposed to a whole new market and um you know we've got a history in this market we've got a lot of amazing Solutions in the market and I'm really curious about what people think how how they use them what alternatives they look at how they decide on what they're going to use and you know what they think we can do to be even better so a lot a lot on my list I also want to go look at our look at the other uh players and the major players in the in the market to get

to know my peers there and get to see what they're all about look at their uh their presence look at what they're offering and I think that'll be a great education for me as well so it's going to be very very good plus to be in Texas you know that's going to be fun as well as a Californian to go visit Texas just going to point out the weather is not supposed to be the best it's not going to be a normal Texas November it's going to be a little bit colder it's 30s to 50s so just come prepared don't come expecting 80s like it

usually is it's a little advanced warning might be some rain so Brock I'm gonna end with you last I'm gonna go to Jonathan next since he's having keyboard shortcut fails what are you looking forward to in this since you've been before I kind of waited to do the guys who have been last like I I think you have a different view of this because you kind of expect something so from someone who's been there before what are you looking to get out of this sure I from so this will be my first time there uh as a commercial exhibitor so that'll be different and it'll

be really interesting to to meet our customers and our you know potential customers people that might be interested in the stuff we're doing I've exhibited before but always like as a university or it's some kind of Consortium and that's a different a different take on what the exhibit floor is um but one of the things that I hear people say all the time when you start going to this conference another similar Computing conferences is that the community is actually pretty small and this is said in reference to you keep running into the same people all the time when you go to these conferences and even

though you know there will be so many thousands of people at the show that seems large for a show but then you realize pretty much everyone goes to this show and that's the entire Global audience for this kind of thing and so you know I've I've worked at a number of different sites and I really look forward to uh coming to a show like this and meeting up with people that I've worked with or worked for or worked around or met up at previous conferences uh again and uh talking with them about the work that they're doing about the work that we're doing and ways

that we can uh you know collaborate in the future and just you know catch up these are people these are my colleagues that I've known for increasingly long periods of time I was going to say more than a decade but that doesn't even quite cover it anymore um yeah it's always good to to see those people again and uh in in the same way you know this hasn't gone unsaid already but we're a remote company and I I've been really glad to meet a few of my colleagues here at ciq in person uh from smaller conferences that we participated in up to now um but

one of the big benefits of having such a large contingent at the show this year is that we'll get to see each other and I I look forward to having that energy present in our booth presence as well because I think if people come by and and want to meet us they'll be you know in the middle of and not a reunion isn't accurate but it's going to be a good time at the ciq booth because we'll all be really glad to see each other we have a great uh a great set of colleagues great culture here at ciq and I think that's going to

be on display uh for anyone that wants to come learn about Rocky or learn about apptainer or learn about buzz ball any of these things absolutely and I actually I forgot to stop on Forest as a first time attendee because when I started here we were still fairly small and Forest was HPC to me so it's hard for me to think of him not being at this conference before I'm sorry Forrest I want to go back and say what are you looking forward to I know you have a list of things that you want to see and different booths that you want to stop by

so what are you looking forward to um well I kind of come out of the academic and National Lab HPC space my original background was an HPC sysadmin while I was a student at a university in Idaho um so I've been hearing about SC for my colleagues and how awesome it is for years how great it is to be able to go and see all the tech and meet all the people and um I have just been hearing um yeah for the better part of the years about how awesome this conference is I've got to go to a couple ones this year already around and

about that have been really really cool but nothing at the scale that SC is going to be so I'm thrilled to get there uh first off I mean uh I have to say first off probably meet the ciq team um it is absolutely thrilling to have watched this company grow so much over the past year and a half so I am absolutely thrilled to get to meet so many of our people and get to meet you know so many of these colleagues that we've been building you know the next generation of high performance Computing with for so long um so that's gonna be very exciting

uh overall meet in the industry is going to be awesome just to kind of reiterate what Jonathan said I've heard in HBC for a long time as well that it's a really small field and that there's really you know overall some of these events kind of Encompass the greater majority of the people that are out there in it um so with this being my first LC I'm really excited to meet the industry meet the major players meet some of these kind of industry folks that we've interacted with over time and actually get to you know hopefully shake their hands and you know at least see

these people in person there's something about you know actually getting to meet in a forum that is not zoom than just you know like Jonathan touches on crates and energy that is really palpable in the air so I'm really excited to meet you know like I said all the people that are on ciq um and just kind of in the industry at large get to know fellow professionals potential Partners customers the researchers I've spent a lot of time talking to researchers about what they do in HBC and how they use it and so I'm thrilled to get back to just kind of being out there

in the mix and figuring out what the nature of HPC is um of course you know the tech there's all kinds of crazy stuff going on out there with AI chip companies new interconnects I mean not like I said um you know really once again novel silicon um new paradigms around gpus I mean all kinds of different stuff that's going on right now it is really a technological Renaissance at HPC that we have dove into in our webinars and stuff like that before um there's a lot that's changing in the field right now so it's going to be thrilling to kind of see this um

uh crossover between everyone finally being back in person and everyone having really really interesting work that they're excited to share um so I think it's going to be an awesome show and I'm just absolutely thrilled uh about everything about it just about so that's very exciting looking forward to seeing you Forest I'm gonna go to the new and improve Dave so foreign so um uh yeah there's a little subtext that's been going so if you haven't figured it out already we have fun at ciq you know this is a we have a pretty good company culture I think and I think we have a pretty

good time in addition to getting a lot of a lot of cool work done um yeah so um are we still on um you know what are you what are you looking forward to yeah what are you planning to see what are you looking forward to what are you what are you trying to get out of it I think it's a different a little bit of a different Paradigm for you guys who have been there before you kind of know what to expect and where to focus a little bit better than those of us who are new to it are just gonna kind of scatter

out and learn yeah so as um as Jonathan kind of uh alluded to you know and and several of the other folks too um you know one of the things I'm really looking forward to is is seeing you know uh folks that I haven't seen in a while that I've um worked with either through the uh app Tanner Community or maybe I've worked with previously um at other sites um I'm looking forward to running into those folks catching up with them seeing what kinds of things are going on um and also like what kinds of Technology people are getting into what kinds of new software's

out there uh you know what what the new kind of buzzwordy things um are that are going on um yeah so I'm just I'm really looking forward to that I'm looking for you know I've attended SC both as a consumer and as a producer so obviously we'll be producers this this time around um we're all going to be wearing uh you know similar ciq green branded shirts so you know I encourage people to look for us not just at the booth but um all around we're going to be attending some uh of the birds of a feather or boss um you know so so we'll

be kind of uh you know I think that there are 10 people on this call I think this is like half the number of people that are actually going to attend from SC so we're going to have a huge presence so please you know as as we're Fanning out and going around talking to people engaging in different things if you see one of us you know grab us and pull us aside and you know start talking to us about you know whatever interests you see I'm really excited about it I mean uh shows like this tend to be um beautiful and awful and what I

mean by that is they are like for me at least um they're they're so exciting because there's so many new things and so much new stuff and so many people to talk to and there's some you know but at the same time there's like so exhausting because it's it's overwhelming and there's so much that hits you at once and so after after the show's over it kind of catches up to you and you're like whoa you know it takes you the next week to sort of soak things in and and kind of mull things over and figure out what just happened to you so I'm

looking forward to it I am too and I'm gonna I'm gonna stop or I'm not gonna stop I'm gonna go to Brock but I have a little bit of a different a different question just a different way of looking at it Brock I think your view and how things are going to go at SC for you are going to be a little bit different than the rest of us I think you're gonna have a lot of meetings I know you're giving some talks and different booths so I I want you to tell us a little bit about that and then from your perspective I know

you're gonna be tied up quite often but what are you trying to get out of this or what do you want to get out of this yeah um so I'll try to remember all parts of that question uh you may have to nudge me so so first one of the things um where we're going to do a good amount of talking about is um what it meant and what we've done by joining the open radios community so we've got a couple different talks lined up where uh we talked about that on this webinar a couple different times but um just what that has meant and

you know I'm going to be giving my call it my opinion it's definitely an opinion but but the fact that that is a really big deal it's going to be really interesting to see if it has a ripple effect because radios is a very well-known uh very popular code and I I think as both Justin and force kind of alluded to um HPC is not slowing down it's it's it's literally moving faster and the theme this year being HPC accelerates while that can be you know a pun for different things it's literally the the Technologies are moving so fast now that that something like moving

a code like radius open source allows that collaboration so we're going to be talking about uh some of the things that we've been able to do and yoshi-san has been able to to get moving very quickly collaborating across company boundaries um I'll be talking uh as well I'm going to talk in the uh the Giga i o Booth uh we're gonna be having a conversation about composable infrastructure I'm looking forward to that and then I'm also talking uh I think Force mentioned you know Fabrics uh be talking in Cornelius networks Booth um where we're going to have more it's more of a discussion and conversation

about uh again that pace of technology and how companies like ciq and cornelis and gig IO and others you know we have to work together for the the community for the user base because there's so many different parts and pieces that are moving and you know again what what's always good to see is at the show you get to see something you didn't know right or there's there's some different aspect you weren't necessarily thinking about but then you know it starts to Spur those ideas and you know an example um maybe the last time is it super computing pre-pandemic I came across a vendor that

was selling entire uh enclosed racks liquid cooling enclosed racks for um areas that you wouldn't think Super Coupe Computing could go into and again think open air desert environments with sand and things like that right their their enclosures protect the systems they're able to keep them cool you know think mobile applications of actually taking computer or super Computing type of capabilities around yeah it's not something I you know I would have been thinking about but I passed the booth and I see it and you know all of a sudden these ideas start talking you know how to or start percolating how do you actually take

advantage of that kind of stuff how do you combine with that type of technology and it's a blur um and as one of the real Dave's mentioned um you know it's it's it's also kind of humorous to watch so the opening Gallup most people are going to be dressed up or they're wearing their logo gear uh Tuesday gets down to you know everybody's excited the the meetings really start happening and there's a lot of hustle and bustle still on the show floor Wednesday you're starting to see you know people are taking off their coats or you know it's more sneakers and stuff and by Thursday

it's it's t-shirts and it's you know you can see it in people's faces they're like when it's my flight I'm so tired you know it's just as you go through the show it's it's it's literally it's fun chaos to be a part of um but it Rose said earlier there's so many booths uh you know you you take the time to walk the show floor but you you can't hit every single Booth so you do flybys uh you do two or three and it's like every time you walk you you realize you missed something um and then there's there's always a lot of fun stuff

that's going on you know um I always say that the first booth that I look for on the the show floor is Kaus because they always have the Espresso Bar um and and every so often they have dates which are delicious um I think somebody I think it was Greg in the comments mentioned one year there was the actual Star Trek bridge from the original show and that was actually Intel that that did that they they uh you could rent that bridge and they brought it onto the show floor and allowed people to come in and get pictures um and one of our Long Time

Collaborators Jeremy cidel who's still at Intel I remember he got his picture and he gave it his best James Kirk you know of getting a picture sitting in the captain's chair and everything so there's a lot of fun things like that that you'll see you know giveaways and things but it's it's again it's it's this beautiful and terrible chaos that you know at the end of the week you're just exhausted uh it's been a good time that you're definitely ready to leave and go go just to some silence for a while um it's good exercise so you know for for people who do go to

a lot of meetings you have to have good comfortable shoes because inevitably you'll have one meeting that's on the show floor with somebody and the next one is at a hotel that's that's many blocks away from the convention center and then you're giving a presentation 30 minutes after that back on the show floor and so you see a lot of people not necessarily running but they're walking very fast right to get from place to place so um again it's it's great and uh you know it's there's also a newness to me this year it's going to be the first time at a super Computing physically

or virtually where I'm not actually working at a silicon company so that there's an aspect of being new for me that I'm really excited about and and being able to to talk about with people and engage um and I'm I'm now in that crowd of you know I know a lot of people you see a lot of people but I'm in a new company you know I'm at a new role so it's it's been many years of seeing you know people that change change companies change institutions um you see you know some people retire and then they come back because they can't they can't be

away from it one of those things is you can never leave HPC it pulls you back in right so it's it's a fun time it's you know it's a whirlwind and I I think there's also a little bit disappointment because you can't do everything there's competing events you want to go to again they may be cross town There's exciting things you just you know if if you snooze you miss out so a great example there Tuesday is diversity day at Super computing and if you're not familiar with the women in HPC organization um that has grown very very quickly and they have a number of

things planned they have a workshop on Sunday and they have uh things happening all throughout Tuesday and then a reception Tuesday night that's already closed because they've had so many people um getting into it I did not make it in so I don't have a ticket to that that's what I'm disappointed because uh there's there's a lot of star power that's going to be at that event uh looks like it's a lot of fun so it's those kinds of things you have that disappointment you can't do everything and it's a lot it is a is a Big Show with a lot going on great thank

you Brock and I think you brought us very important yeah absolutely and I have the schedule of all the speeches I can just um yeah let everybody know so we've got um on uh the 15th we've got uh three speakers we've got Brock speaking at cornelis networks which is Booth 745 he's going to be speaking at 11 30. um Brock can you tell us what you're going to be speaking about I don't know what the topic is exactly but I know this yeah that that one um I I swore to myself I would only sign up to do two speaking engagements and then I signed

up for a third and that was cornelison and and I uh we don't have a title for it it's a discussion um it's it's a discussion about how the different elements of technologies have to combine um and it's kind of open-ended right it's not meant to necessarily be a presentation but literally it's going to be q a and and you know I I I don't want to scare people away but it you know if attend that I will be asking questions of the people at 10 just as much as I hope they're asking me questions and cordella's questions so really an interactive session with cornelis

and cornelis being a a very well-known infiniband fabric that's important to the industry I think it's going to be a lot of fun okay great well uh once that's over uh we have Greg our our CEO Greg kurtzer speaking in the Silicon mechanics Booth which is Booth 1422 so that's at noon on the 15th from noon to 12 30. and then the third speech that day is in the Altair booth and that's Brock again that's Booth 3303 and that is at 1 30 to 2 P.M and then the following day on the 16th Brock is giving a speech in the Giga IO Booth which is

booth number 539 uh the title of that speech is time to buy into composable infrastructure and that's from 3 to 3 30 pm and then finally uh Jonathan not Dave Anderson will be speaking in the Intel booth number 2428 that's on the 17th at 12 30 we'll have all these uh the schedule on our website as well so you go to our website just go look for events you'll find the SC 22 event and this will be all listed there so yeah CI cubers speak thanks yeah we'll post a link to that so you guys can find that Justin you want to say bro yeah

and if I may uh I think Jonathan's talk combines so many interesting and good things um you know again it's in that that Thursday they range where where people are are getting tired but it it's there's so much that's going into that so much work that has gone into but he's going to be able to talk about where it's it's built on that that uh work we've done that Yoshi has done with open radios but now it's it's really showcasing How It sped very quickly to Altair ciq and Intel working together on this important code and I think that that theme of openness uh is

is permeating very well and and this has been a great Showcase of what it could mean in the time where the Technologies are just moving so fast it's it's very difficult to stay on the edge [Music] speaking of themes if I can just break in one more time and just say that the theme our theme for the show it was inspired by a graph that we've been generating from Apple data that we pull from the Fedora project that is showing that Rocky we week by week is a growing uh and increasing market share uh and and it's the fastest growing Enterprise Linux now in the

world so our theme for that event to sort of celebrate that up into the right growth is Aspire higher so uh we hope that will will achieve that goal at the show and and we'll uh you know create some excitement around the incredible energy and Adoption of Rocky Linux great thank you Dave so Brock you pointed out something earlier that I think is important especially for people it's their first time I think one of the things that was a good first time tip is make sure you wear comfortable shoes these events are long and you're on your feet a lot so wearing comfortable absolutely well

the other ones that I would add before I go around the room here and have people give just from past conference experience not necessarily from this one but something that you would say is something you do I would say one that's important is to stay hydrated I think it's easy to run between events and booths and not to drink enough and that can there you go it caused some problems give headaches those kind of things so carry water with you stay hydrated and I will go Rose do you have any first time or tips for for 10 conference tips in general [Music] I have a

question actually real quick first certainly am I going to be able to shake hands with a robot like for the high five is that is that gonna happen there yeah good question maybe I want that to happen you can never say yeah you never know that's that's a robot dog now maybe sorry what was that I said there's a robot dog count I've seen those floating around quite quite often lately at the conference they're going to be like running around that would be weird I don't know that would be cool but I don't know that would be cool that would be cool or do they

whine like your dog does no that one's not mine today my dog's in my room too and she's she can hear the other dog she's looking around like um yeah comfortable shoes water um I don't know if there's like I mean maybe a camera can we take pictures in there good question is is that a yes absolutely yeah um and yes we're we actually just we're getting there's there's gonna be a lot of progress there you know yeah take a lot of pictures everybody take videos and we're gonna make a little highlights reel after the event to share with our audience love it I just

got another message that you guys probably see too eats that is an issue with you all okay I I will be there making sure that we have snacks and things to eat water is important but you got to keep your brain power going so yeah easy to just kind of fade fade as you go so it's not true we'll have snacks in our booth so you guys just come over to our booth I'll hook you up you'll be all good to go 5 21.

that's right that's it all right see you there thank you Rose Justin I feel like we've done this a lot in a lot of different conferences just not SC what would you pass along my encouragement is come by come by and have a conversation I I all of us are dying to uh find out what you guys are up to um how we can be of help how we can can you know provide value with the stuff that we're making we're really excited about it and we are just dying to kind of talk to you about it so if you see us so I do

find it funny that our there are our motto is Aspire higher because most of us I think are well into our six foot I know I'm six foot eight so if you see the giant ball guy just come by and say hi like he's these are really friendly guy that's that's me so looking forward to it thank you Justin Dickerson I'm not going to go with the Dave it's too confusing you've been doing this quite a bit lately so from the recent experiences uh I would say coming out of the pandemic have that LinkedIn QR code ready not everybody's got business cards not everybody is

is wanting to do that and that's another easy way to to connect have that QR code ready and maybe in a notepad just have a thank you message ready to copy paste and drop it in there um you know those those little connections however you can have them help have you seen people print those out and like sticking over the back of their phone or anything Dave uh I have uh so there's there's I mean there's cooler pieces of technology that you can do beyond that uh but yeah I mean you can print the QR code out there's there's a digital ones that are being

done too to where you can just tap and utilize NFC um to transfer your your data that way uh well sure not transfer your data but share your contact information that way um but yeah just just little things like that to be you know able and willing and ready to have a conversation with anyone at any time there you go Forest you've also been to a couple of these recently yes I am um I I'm sorry sorry about that um I would say my first big tip um the first thing that I have on my mind is I just want to Echo the photographic component

of everything um definitely yeah document the event take photos generate that material um you know help capture this you know momentous occasion of everyone coming back and um yeah I'm really big on you know photography and kind of capturing the event and stuff like that so I cannot Echo that enough um that'd be pretty cool um on another level uh the physical level of things the nearest um I guess my biggest step is yeah I just want to go make sure you take care of yourself eat uh you know drink water eat make sure you've got you know easy snacks stuff like that those you

know smoothies whenever you got to go get yourself from the Walgreens across the street from the hotel um whatever Dave you're bringing up questions now Dave Dickerson I I see that so in uh in the actual app um in the LinkedIn app you can click on the search bar at the top I'm doing it right now to make sure I'm taking in the right direction so you click the search bar at the top as if you're going to find somebody and in the right corner it looks like a little QR code in here I'll go ahead and show mine if it's if it's visible but

it'll give your image and give the QR code that goes directly to your LinkedIn uh profile and you can you can either save that image or have that up um with the latest iOS update you can quickly change your background on your phone so you can always have that as an option too so you just change your background on your phone and then share it that way you don't have to worry about the speed of Wi-Fi or um Telco connectivity inside of the space absolutely and if you guys aren't taking pictures and documenting stuff make sure if we're in it tag Us in it YouTube

Instagram Twitter all of those please do Ian tell me what what you would suggest um so unfortunately I'm not in a position to make suggestions because this isn't only my first SC but just my first conference in general so like Jonathan Essie will be my first conference so I'm actually just writing down all these tips so I can not only survive but enjoy the whole thing as well very nice looking forward to it the real Dave God love you've been to a few conferences before yeah so um I would give a perspective uh okay so I used to attend um a scientific conference it was

pretty big the society for Neuroscience conference every year and so I can give a little bit of a perspective if you're if you're not new to conferences but you're used to attending more scientific conferences and you're coming to SC um I can give you um some things that are different so I you know it used to be that I would really prioritize primarily poster presentations at the scientific conference secondarily scientific talks and then after that um you know if I had time maybe or if there was something specific I wanted to see that was specific to my research I would go to the show floor

and so I was really things are very different at SC right because you know if you're so I would I would prioritize that because my priority is like meeting people making relationships and talking to people and the best place to do that is like in front of a poster you know discussing some new idea at a scientific conference but at SC the best place to do that is on the show floor uh you know checking out some new technology or some new software or something like that so it's it's a little different if you're used to going to Scientific shows going to a trade show

like SC where the the floor is really you know the the biggest thing and then I would say after that if you're you know if you're like me you're trying to make relationships and you know talk to people the second most important thing is probably uh boss birds of a feather and then panel discussions and things like that are also you know really great as well but yeah definitely prioritize the show floor great thank you apparently I just lost life in here uh are y'all available on Sunday or Monday uh it depends there will be depending on the time of day I think there will

be some people that are starting to arrive on Monday if you want to reach out there will be a handful of us there so uh Zayn I I arrive in Dallas at 10 30 and I'll be uh going almost directly to the the Dell HPC Community Meetup which is in that area so uh yeah 100 reach out to us and we can set up some time to meet Brock I think you gave a tip but do you wanna do you have any more tips that we've missed so far well um it definitely impacts me I I think the hydration is important but on the show

floor again it's very very loud and noisy and by the second or third day you can lose your voice um so somebody somebody once gave me tips you know it's it's even when you're talking try to project you know from your diaphragm you know deep and things but you do have to kind of be conscious that especially if you're going to be on the show floor most of those days just talking to people because of the the volume you can lose your voice pretty easily and now I'll admit it's my dog that's whining and if she would lose her voice right now that would be

okay but I I typically by Wednesday I'm very hoarse and by you know by Thursday like I need to go home and so it's it's an interesting event but all good too um that everybody that's great and we actually do have a link we've got one in the comments yeah yeah there's a good tip in the comments as well um right around the the conference center all those restaurants will be packed almost all the time so um you know there there's usually food you can get on the show floor um and the restaurants close by are going to be really packed but if you've got

time you want like a a nice lunch or something a lot of times you have to plan to get a little further out and then you can get into restaurants a little bit more easily and that area is kind of on a side of downtown so it might be a little bit of a trip to get away from the stuff it's right there by it it's kind of a downtown area with not a lot of restaurants so you will have to take a little bit of a ride all right Mr Leduc been doing this for a while as well you know as nice well I

haven't I haven't been to the as I said I haven't been to the sc20 at the yes the super Computing shows before um but I have been to many large trade shows and here's some advice this is important advice this advice could save your life if they sell hot dogs in the concession stand within the trade show floor do not purchase do not eat thank you thank you Dave and we will finish up with Jonathan do you have any advice for us from past conference experience SC anything like that uh the only thing that hasn't already been said I think is just to to there's

too much to do so don't don't feel like you have to stretch yourself thin and try and do everything come back next year uh but I I Echo Dave's uh suggestion to focus on the boss uh the Buffs are good anything where you get to have a conversation with someone and really dig into something uh it's really tempting to kind of just flip around the convention or flit around the exhibit hall and and get a little bit of not very much of everything uh but take what time you can and dig in actually get to know people meet them those relationships are what last beyond

the show floor floor and uh that's where I've gotten the most value out of it that's great well we are about out of time guys I really appreciate you coming I'm looking forward to seeing you all in person and on Monday some of you may be earlier than that so please stop by we're more than happy to talk to you about what we're doing what we're working on just be glad to see people in person so come by say hi tag Us in pictures uh like And subscribe and we will see you next week thank you guys cheers [Music] thank you