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Aspire Higher: Innovating at Super Computing 22

November 10, 2022

Join us for a live discussion on what to expect, where to find us at SC22, and more!

Webinar Synopsis:

  • What Is Supercompute?

  • Gala Opening Night

  • What CIQ Will Be Showing at the Conference

  • What is Family Day at SC22?

  • What to Get Out Of SC22

  • When CIQ Employees Will Speak at SC

  • Tips for SC22

  • Sharing Your LinkedIn Profile

Speakers:

  • Zane Hamilton, Vice President of Sales Engineering, CIQ

  • Jonathon Anderson, HPC System Engineer Sr. CIQ

  • Forrest Burt, High Performance Computing Systems Engineer, CIQ

  • Brock Taylor, VP of HPC & Strategic Partners, CIQ

  • Ian Kaneshiro, Software Engineer, CIQ

  • Rose Stein, Sales Operations Administrator, CIQ

  • David Godlove, Solutions Architect, CIQ

  • Justin Burdine, Director of Solution Engineering, CIQ

  • Dave Dickerson, Director of Channel and Ecosystem Partners, CIQ

  • Dave LaDuke, Strategy, Marketing & Operations, CIQ

Note: This transcript was created using speech recognition software. While it has been reviewed by human transcribers, it may contain errors.

Full Webinar Transcript:

Zane Hamilton:

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are. Welcome back to another CIQ webinar. We appreciate you joining. My name is Zane Hamilton. I'm the Vice President of Sales Engineering here at CIQ. CIQ is focused on powering the next generation of software infrastructure, leveraging the cloud, hyperscale, and HPC capabilities. Our customers rely on us, from researchers to the enterprise, for the ultimate Rocky Linux, Warewulf, and Apptainer support escalation. We provide deep development capabilities and solutions, all delivered in the collaborative spirit of open source. 

Today we're talking about an exciting topic that I think we've been looking forward to for a long time, or at least for the last year, and that is SC22. We'll bring everybody in and start talking about what we expect here. Welcome. Hello everyone. Let's start off doing some introductions. I'm going to start right at the top, middle Rose, introduce yourself.

Rose Stein:

Hey everyone, good to be here. My name is Rose Stein. I am new to the team, It's only been a couple of weeks now, but I am the sales operations administrator. I'm behind the scenes, helping everything go smoothly.

Zane Hamilton:

Excellent. Thank you. Rose. Justin?

Justin Burdine:

Justin Burdine, I'm excited to be here. Excited to get to SC22. This will be my first show. I joined CIQ about three months ago. I work with Zane on the consulting side.

Zane Hamilton:

Great. Thank you, Justin. Ian, it's been a long time. How are you?

Ian Kaneshiro:

Good. So a little bit of introduction. My name's Ian Kaneshiro. I'm a software engineer here at Control IQ. I work primarily on the Apptainer and Fuzzball products.

Zane Hamilton:

Excellent. Thanks, Ian. We shift around. I'm going to go back up to Dickerson, his last name. Hey, I have a lot of Daves.

Dave Dickerson:

First, Dave, so I get to call dibs on it. Everybody else can go by the last name. A pleasure to be here. Dave Dickerson, Director of Channel and Ecosystem Partners for CIQ. This will be my first supercompute, and I'm super excited to be able to go and see all the potential partners.

Zane Hamilton:

Fantastic. Brock, good to see you again.

Brock Taylor:

I'm Brock, Vice President of High Performance Computing, which has little to do with Supercomputing. I am curious how many times I've been to the show. I've been to more than a few. It's going to be really good and very interesting.

Zane Hamilton:

Excellent. Mr. Godlove, how are you?

Dave Godlove:

Pretty good. How are you doing, Zane? Good to see you again. I'm Dave Godlove. I'm Dave number two today, and Dr. Dave's already taken, so I'll have to go by Dr. Glove. In any case, I am a Solutions Architect here at CIQ.

I'm looking forward to the show and talking about and demonstrating some of our new products.

Zane Hamilton:

That's great. I like the DJ name: Dr. Glove. Forrest, welcome.

Forrest Burt:

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 2021. This will be my first SC22 as well, like many here. I'm thrilled to see the show and meet our team.

Zane Hamilton:

Thank you, Forrest. Jonathon, good to see you.

Jonathon Anderson:

It's also not my first show, but I'm excited to go back. It's been a while because of Covid and whatnot. I'm glad to be excited to go to SC again finally. Because it got to be a bit much for a little bit, it'll be great to be there.

Zane Hamilton:

Thank you, Jonathon. And the last, Dave, last but not least.

Dave LaDuke:

I'm Dave LeDuc. I started in July. I have a pretty extensive open source background, but HPC is new to me, so this will be the first SC event I'm looking forward to. We put a lot of work into planning it and will send many people, and I'm excited to meet this audience. Meet the market, get to know people, and know their problems and interests. It's going to be great.

What Is Supercompute? [09:33]

Zane Hamilton:

That's great. Thanks, Dave. All right. Brock, tell us what is supercompute. What is this thing?

Brock Taylor:

It starts Monday night with a welcome to the chaos. It's the opening gala, which kicks it all off. It's the only thing going on, so everybody is there. It's very crowded. It's deafening. It's very noisy. Everybody is flowing through the show floor. It is a very large conference. This year won't be back to peak attendance because of the pandemic. This will be the first year in the past two or three that you'll see closer to full attendance. That chaos, I expect to be back in full force.

I forget which Dave it said. There's always so much to learn. It's a great time, you get a lot of researchers, so you get to hear everything from professors and students. What their projects are, what they're working on, what the science is behind, and what they're doing. It's also a number of commercial customers there, people who are buying and using supercomputing, but it's also a great player across the HPC industry. All the people you have worked with in the past are there, and there are many cross collaborations. Meeting up with people you've worked with over the phone for years and years. It's the one time of year when almost everybody gets a chance to be face-to-face and get a chance to have those conversations that can dramatically advance a project or collaboration or something of that nature. It's a site to be seen. It's different from a lot of conferences that I've gone to. Supercomputing is in a class by itself. Again, the size and the amount of participation you have are impressive.

Zane Hamilton:

Brock, this brings people in from all over the globe. This is not just a United States, Canada, or North American thing. This is global, right?

Brock Taylor:

Both supercomputing conferences are international. 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 at least six continents worldwide. There could be someone technically working on the seventh continent in this space. It's all disciplines in research computing, scientific computing, and artificial intelligence. We had a joke going. AI is a big part of HPC. Some people like myself call it HPC or an HPC workload. But everything under the sun is really related to parallel computing all the way up through the biggest and most powerful systems on the planet. The most power efficient systems on the planet. Everything is there. It's a great chance to see all kinds of technologies that feed into HPC.

Zane Hamilton:

Supercomputing is a great conference. I am looking forward to being present for all. Thank you, Greg. We're all looking forward to seeing you there too. Dr. Godlove, you said you had been before, right?

Dave Godlove:

Yeah, I've been to SC several times. Probably three or four, not totally sure.

Gala Opening Night [13:52]

Zane Hamilton:

Sorry, I've heard Brock talk about the gala. That's a big chaotic event. What is your experience with the gala's opening night?

Dave Godlove:

The gala is a lot of fun. Everybody is on the edge of their seat and super excited because the conference is just kicking off and starting, and it's your opportunity to dive in. There's electricity in the air. There are beers in hand, and everybody's just having a good time, getting excited about all the stuff they're going to see and the upcoming days. It's a very exciting and fun time, but it's also a time to start getting yourself into gear and looking around and seeing the things you're going to be visiting over the next few days. Start to talk to people, start to get the juices flowing, and get those ideas turning in your head. Who you will be talking to, what kinds of ideas you will be going over, and everything. It's a cool way to start the conference.

Zane Hamilton:

Jonathon, do you see that gala night as the time to walk the floor and see where people are going to spend time the next day? Or is that a time when people start diving in?

Jonathon Anderson:

I have yet to differentiate the gala myself in the past. It's just the first day of the exhibit. I don't mean like the next day is more focused. It's just another exhibit floor day for me. I'm more about zeroing in on specific people there, like an exhibitor I've wanted to talk with or someone I had heard of but didn't know much about, and trying to have those small longer term conversations as long term as you can on a show floor like that. Trying to meet people, and a lot is going on that first night. There might be 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 it in the past. I don't know if this happens every time, but when it was in Denver, I was glad there was a family day too. I lived in the area and could bring my kids in there too. And everyone had their demos and all of their swag and stuff out to show off their product and brand and talk about what they're excited about doing in the most visually appealing way possible.

What CIQ Will Be Showing at the Conference [16:25]

Zane Hamilton:

CIQ, are going to have some things that we're going to talk about. We have a booth, booth 521. Stop by and say hi. We'd love to talk to you more, but I would like to ask, and I'll start with Forrest. What are some of the things we will be showing and talking about?

Forrest Burt:

We've got a lot to talk about at SC and a lot to show off there. The biggest things that we're going to be discussing are the four different products that we have in the HPC sphere. Apptainer, Warewulf, Rocky Linux and Fuzzball. Our containers for HPC, Warewulf, node provisioning, and cluster management for HPC. Rocky Linux is the fastest-growing enterprise operating system. Also, a growing choice of supercomputing centers worldwide. Just in general, HPC sites are both large and small. I recently heard that TAC switched to it, but someone will correct me if I'm wrong. Fascinating stuff. We've also got Fuzzball, our HPC orchestration, HPC 2.0 layer that we're excited to show off in the capabilities that we can there, and talk about our vision for the next generation of HPC. We've got all that. We've got a lot of very talented engineers, very talented people coming there, a lot of great demos, a lot of great material, and all kinds of awesome information to show off.

What is Family Day at SC22? [17:53]

Zane Hamilton:

We do have one question. What is Family Day? Jonathon, you started something here. What is Family day, and do people bring their kids?

Jonathon Anderson:

At least at that time, I've mentioned this to other people, and they've been baffled by it, so I don't know if it's every year. But that year, they had an evening where the exhibit floor was open to outside guests, and people could bring their children and their spouse whatever else to come and see the floor, which was great because I'd been there a number of times. It isn't easy to convey the scale and activity of a show like SC. Even if you've been to other trade shows, it is. SC was the first trade show I'd ever been to. Other shows have yet to live up to that standard. But to share that with the people in my family who had heard me tell stories about it all the time but hadn't ever been able to experience it was great. The kids walked away while someone was giving away little microcontrollers and took them to see tape robots moving around and all things like that.

Zane Hamilton:

Thanks, Dave, for putting that, Dave DaBonus. That's very cool. Not one of the days on the screen pointed out it is this year from 4-6 PM on Wednesday.

Brock Taylor:

They do have that every year. It's probably under-publicized, but it's a fantastic way for people. Not just kids but spouses and friends who don't know what HPC is and how it affects them actually to bring them on. There are so many good displays going on, like I said, all kinds of science. Weather and climate modeling, you'll see some traditional HBC structures like car crashes and things. But there's so much technology that it could be inspiring to see. As Jonathon said, the show floor is massive. It's a big show. It's a great opportunity. It is Wednesday of every year, as it was said.

What to Get Out Of SC22 [19:52]

Zane Hamilton:

One of the things I want to understand from everybody here, I know everybody has 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?

Ian Kaneshiro:

First and foremost, I've been a member of an open source community around containers for several years. The nature of those communities is everyone works with whatever organization they're employed at, and everyone's distributed around the globe. Just submitting PRs and interacting over Slack or maybe Zoom calls. Several of the people in the community I know will assemble forward and finally meet them face to face and talk to them in person for the first time when I've been working with them for years. I'd also say, in general, I've heard a lot about just the variety of technology and work that people will be displaying at SC. I'm just looking forward to being exposed to all of that. It sounds like it's something that you have to experience.

Zane Hamilton:

Very good. Mr. Dickerson, I'm going to pick on you next. What are you looking forward to getting out of this?

Dave Dickerson:

I'm looking to expose not only Rocky but CIQ to more potential partners in the world. Today we just had a huge announcement with Atempo, who went and certified their solution on Rocky. Customers of all shapes and sizes know their tools and solutions are validated to run on Rocky. We did that with them, which is great. I'm looking to engage with everybody out there because I understand that we fit a specific piece into an overall solution. Other companies bring their parts to it, and at the end of the day, we solve a problem that customers are trying to solve individually. To get out and engage with those in this space. My background has been more in storage than in HPC. To be able to engage with companies who are focused on this particular vertical. It's super exciting, and we get to do it in person in real life, not just over zoom.

Zane Hamilton:

Has been too long. Justin, what are you looking forward to?

Justin Burdine:

It's been a long time since I was in the HPC world, probably two plus decades. A lot has changed, I can only imagine. I'm looking forward to, first of all, being in front of people again. That probably can't be understated or overstated either way. I can't wait. Go understand where technology is, what other vendors are doing, what people are doing, and what the researchers are doing. That's another area I've never even explored in my career. All of that is exciting to me.

Zane Hamilton:

Thank you, Justin. Rose?

Rose Stein:

I've never been to SC ever. I'm excited even just hearing you guys talk about it. I was at a different conference a couple of years ago, but it was from what you guys are saying, and I saw the map and all the people going to be there. I'm like, wow, how am I even going to get to every booth? There isn't time, even in the three or four days that we're going to be there. 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. 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 a solution now. What are you doing? Okay, if that's not a problem anymore, what else can we do? It's like a really exciting time and a real energy app. I'm looking forward to being there.

Zane Hamilton:

Thank you, Rose. That's great. Mr. LaDuke, what are you looking forward to?

Dave LaDuke:

You can call me Dave. Anyway, I'm similar to what Justin and Rose said. I'm very interested in getting with people, including CIQ people. I've met many people at the company on Zoom, but we need to encounter each other in real life. And we'll be doing that, and that'll be very good. We're sending over 20 people to this show, which is a big showing for a company of our size. When we were originally planning the show, the numbers seemed on the large side to me. Given just our presence overall. But it's going to be great. We're going to have a lot of great connections in the market.

I'm looking to make my own. I want to meet the people that attend, understand better what their problems are, understand better what research they're doing, and how we can help. I want to understand how they perceive our products today and our brand as a company. We're still small, still new. I'm interested in hearing people's impressions of where they think we are and what problems we can solve in their world. That's crucial. From that perspective, it will be really interesting to be exposed to a whole new market. 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 they use them, and what alternatives they look at. How they decide on what they will use and what they think we can do to be even better—a lot on my list. I also want to look at the other major players in the market. I was hoping you could get to know my peers there and see what they're all about. Look at their presence and what they're offering, and I think that'll be a great education for me as well. It's going to be very cool.

Zane Hamilton:

Very good.

Dave LaDuke:

Plus to be in Texas that's going to be fun as well as a Californian to go visit Texas.

Zane Hamilton:

I'm pointing out that the weather is not supposed to be the best. It's not going to be a normal Texas November. It's going to be colder. The thirties to fifties, so just come prepared. Don't come expecting eighties, like it usually is just a little advanced warning. Might be some rain. Brock, I'm going to end with you. Last, I will go to Jonathon next since he's having a keyboard shortcut fail. What are you looking forward to in this since you've been before? I waited to see the last guys. You have a different view of this because you expect something. From someone who's been there before, what are you looking to get out of this?

Jonathon Anderson:

 This will be my first time there as a commercial exhibitor. That'll be different. And it'll be really interesting to meet our customers and potential customers who might be interested in the stuff we're doing. I've exhibited before, but I always liked it as a university or consortium. And that's a different take on what the exhibit floor is. But one of the things that I hear people say all the time when you start going to this conference and other similar computing conferences is that the community is small. You keep running into the same people when you go to these conferences. Even though there will be 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.

I've worked at a number of different sites. I look forward to coming to this show and meeting with people I've worked with, worked for, and worked around. I look forward to meeting with individuals from previous conferences again, talking with them about their work, our work, and ways we can collaborate in the future and catch up. These are people. These are my colleagues that I've known for increasingly long periods. I was going to say more than a decade, but that doesn't even quite cover it anymore. It's always good to see those people again, and in the same way, this hasn't gone unsaid already. Still, we're a small company, and I've been really glad to meet a few of my colleagues here at CIQ in person from smaller conferences we've participated in.

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 look forward to having that energy present in our booth presence as well. I think if people come by and want to meet us, they'll be in the middle of not having 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 set of colleagues and culture here at CIQ, which will be on display for anyone who wants to learn about Rocky, Apptainer, or Fuzzball.

Zane Hamilton:

Absolutely. I just remembered that I had to stop on Forrest as a first time attendee because when I started here, we were still fairly small, and Forrest was HPC to me. It's hard for me to think of him not being at this conference before. I'm sorry, Forrest, I'm going to go back and say, what are you looking forward to? You have a list of things you want to see and different booths you want to stop by. What are you looking forward to?

Forrest Burt:

I come out of the academic and national lab HPC space. My original background was as an HPC CIS admin while I was a student at a University in Idaho. I've heard about SC from 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. For the better part of the years, I have just heard how awesome this conference is. I've got to go to a couple of ones this year already, which has been cool. But nothing at the scale that SC will be, so I'm thrilled to get there. First off, meet the CIQ team.

It is thrilling to have watched this company grow so much over the past year and a half. I am thrilled to meet many of our people and colleagues who have been building the next generation of high-performance computing for so long. That's going to be very exciting. Overall, meeting the industry is going to be awesome. To reiterate what Jonathon said, I've heard in HPC for a long time that it's a really small field, and overall, some of these events encompass the greater majority of the people in it. With this being my first SC, I'm excited to meet the industry, the major players, and some of these industry folks we've interacted with over time and hopefully get to shake their hands and see these people in person.

There's something about meeting in a forum that is not Zoom. Like Jonathon touches on, it creates an energy that is palpable in the air. I'm excited to meet, like I said, all the people on CIQ and just in the industry at large and get to know fellow professionals, potential partners, customers, and researchers. I've spent a lot of time talking to researchers about what they do in HBC and how they use it. I'm thrilled to get back to just being out there in the mix and figuring out the nature of HPC. Of course, the tech, there's all kinds of crazy stuff going on out there with AI chip companies, new interconnects. Once again, novel silicone, new paradigms around GPUs, and all kinds of different stuff are happening right now. It is a technological renaissance in HPC that we have dove into, our webinars, and stuff like that. There's a lot that's changing in the field right now, so it's going to be thrilling to see this crossover between everyone finally being back in person and everyone having really interesting work that they're excited to share. It will be an awesome show, and I'm thrilled about everything about it. It's very exciting.

Zane Hamilton:

Looking forward to seeing you, Forrest. I'm going to go to the new and improved Dave.

Dave Godlove:

I had to stop and figure out which Dave, that was for a second. There's a little subtext going on, so if you haven't figured it out already, we have fun at CIQ. We have a pretty good company culture and a good time, in addition to getting a lot of cool work done. Are we still excited?

Zane Hamilton:

What are you looking forward to? What are you planning to see? What are you looking forward to? What are you trying to get out of it? It's a different, a little bit of a different paradigm for you guys who have been there before. You know what to expect and where to focus a little better than those of us who are new to it and just going to scatter out and learn.

Dave Godlove:

I'm looking forward to seeing folks I last saw a while ago that I've worked through the Apptainer community or maybe I've worked with previously at other sites. I'm looking forward to running into those folks, catching up with them, and seeing what is going on. Also, what kinds of technology are people getting into? What new types of software are out there? What new kind of buzzwordy things are going on? I'm looking forward to that. I'm looking forward I've attending SC both as a consumer and as a producer.

We'll be producers this time around. We're all going to be wearing similar CIQ Green branded shirts. I encourage people to look for us at the booth and all around. We will attend some of the birds of a Feather or BS. There are 10 people on this call. This is like half the number of people attending from SC, so we're going to have a huge presence. Please, as we're fanning out and going around talking to people and engaging in different things, if you see one of us, grab and pull us aside and start talking to us about whatever interests you.

I'm excited about it. Shows like this tend to be beautiful and awful. They are like, for me at least, they're so exciting because there are so many new things, so much new stuff, and so many people to talk to. But at the same time, they're so exhausted because it's overwhelming, and so much hits them at once. After the show's over, it catches up to you, and you're like, whoa. And it takes you the next week to soak things in, mull them over, and figure out what just happened to you. I'm looking forward to it.

Zane Hamilton:

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

Brock Taylor:

I'll remember all parts of that question. You may have to nudge me. First, we're going to do a good amount of talking about what it means and what we've done by joining the OpenRadioss community. We've got a couple of different talks lined up. I talked about that in this webinar a couple of different times. Just what that has meant, and I'm going to be giving it to me, call it my opinion, it's an opinion, but the fact that that is a huge deal will be really interesting to see if it has a ripple effect. Radioss is a very well-known and very popular code. And as both Justin and Forrest alluded, HPC is not slowing down.

It's moving faster. This year's theme is HPC accelerates, which can be a pun for different things. The technologies are moving so fast now that something like moving code like Radioss open source allows that collaboration. We're going to be talking about some of the things we've been able to do, and Shean has been able to get moving very quickly, collaborating across company boundaries. I'll be talking as well. I'm going to talk in the GigaIO booth. We're going to be having a conversation about composable infrastructure. I'm looking forward to that. I'm also talking. Forrest mentioned fabrics. I'll be speaking in the Cornelis networks booth. It's more of a discussion and conversation about the pace of technology. Companies like CIQ, Cornelis, GigaIO, and others have to work together for the community for the user base because there are so many different parts and pieces that are moving.

What's always good to see is at the show, you get to see something you didn't know. Or there's some different aspect you weren't necessarily thinking about, but then it spurs those ideas. An example may be the last time was at computing pre-pandemic. I came across a vendor selling entire enclosed racks, liquid cooling, and enclosed racks for areas you wouldn't think supercomputing could go into. Their enclosures protect the systems, and they're able to keep them cool. Think mobile applications of actually taking computer or supercomputing capabilities around, and it's not something I would have been thinking about. Still, I passed the booth and saw it, and all of a sudden, these ideas started talking or percolating. And again, think of open-air desert environments with sand and things like that.

How do you take advantage of that stuff? How do you combine that type of technology? And it's a blur. And as one of the real Dave mentioned, it's also humorous to watch. At the opening gala, most people are going to be dressed up, or they're wearing their logo gear. Tuesday gets everybody excited. The meetings start happening, and there's a lot of the hustle and bustle still on the show floor. Wednesday, you're starting to see people taking off their coats, or it's more sneakers and stuff. And by Thursday, it's t-shirts, and you can see them on people's faces. They're like, I'm so tired when it's my flight. As you go through this show, it's fun chaos to be a part of.

As Rose said earlier, there are so many booths. You take the time to walk the show floor, but you can only hit some booths. You do flybys, you do two or three, and it's like every time you walk, you realize you missed something. And then there's always a lot of fun stuff going on. I always say that the first booth that I look for on the show floor is Calst because they always have the espresso bar. Every so often, they have delicious dates. In the comments, somebody, Greg, mentioned one year, there was the actual Star Trek bridge from the original show. That was Intel that did that. They could rent that bridge, and they brought it onto the show floor and allowed people to come in and get pictures.

One of our longtime collaborators, Jeremy S, who's still at Intel, I remember he got his picture and gave it his best, James Kirk, of getting the picture sitting in the captain's chair and everything. There are many fun things like that that you'll see, giveaways, and things. For people who attend many meetings, you have to have comfortable shoes because inevitably, you'll have one meeting on the show floor with somebody, and the next one is at a hotel many blocks away from the convention center. This beautiful and terrible chaos that at the end of the week, you're just exhausted. It's been a good time, but you're ready to leave and go just to some silence for a while. It's good exercise.

Then you're giving a presentation 30 minutes later on the show floor. Many people are not necessarily running but walk quickly to get from place to place. Again, it's great. There's also something new to me this year. It will be the first time at supercomputing, physically or virtually, where I'm not working at a silicon company. There's an aspect of being new for me that I'm excited about and able to talk about with people and engage with. I'm now in that crowd of I know a lot of people. You see a lot of people, but I'm in a new company and a new role. It's been many years of seeing people change companies, change institutions.

You see 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. It's a fun time. It's a whirlwind. There's also a bit of disappointment because you can't do everything. There are competing events you want to go to. Again, they may be across town. There are exciting things. You just if you snooze, you miss out. Great example there. Tuesday is Diversity Day at Supercomputing. If you need to become more familiar with the women in the HPC organization, which has grown very quickly, they have a number of things planned. They have a workshop on Sunday, things happening throughout Tuesday, and then a reception on Tuesday night that's already closed because they've had so many people getting into it. I did not make it in. I don't have a ticket to that. That's when I'm disappointed because there's a lot of star power that's going to be at that event. It looks like it's a lot of fun. You have that disappointment. You can't do everything. It's a big show with a lot going on.

When CIQ Employees Will Speak at SC [43:40]

Dave LaDuke:

Zane, I have the schedule of all the speeches. I can just let everybody know. We've got on the 15th, we've got three speakers. We've got Brock speaking at Cornelis networks, which is Booth 745. He will be speaking at 11:30. Brock, can you tell us what you will talk about? I am still determining what the topic is exactly.

Brock Taylor:

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 Cornelis. We need a title for it. It's a discussion. It discusses how the different elements of technologies have to combine. It's open-ended. It's not necessarily a presentation, but it will be a Q&A. I don't want to scare people away, but if I attend that, I will be asking questions of the people that Ted is, just as much as I hope they're asking me questions and Cornelis questions. An interactive session with Cornelis, and with Cornelis being a very well-known InfiniBand fabric that's important to the industry. It's going to be a lot of fun.

Dave LaDuke:

 Well, once that's over, our CEO. Greg Kurtzer speaking in the Silicon Mechanics booth. Booth 1422. That's on the 15th from 12:00-12:300. The third speech is in the Altair booth, and that's Brock again, that's Booth 3303. That is from 1:30 to 2:00 PM. Then the following day, on the 16th, Brock is giving a speech in the GigaIO booth, which is booth number 539. The title of that speech is Time to Buy Into Composable Infrastructure. That's from 3-3:30 PM. Finally, Jonathon, not Dave Anderson, will be speaking in the Intel booth number 2428 on the 17th at 12:30. We'll have all these schedules on our website as well. If you go to our website and look for events, you'll find the SC22 event, which will be listed there. See some CIQers speak. Thanks.

Zane Hamilton:

Yeah, we'll post the link to that so you guys can find that.

Brock Taylor:

I think Jonathon's talk combines so many interesting and good things. There's so much going into that, but he's going to be able to talk about where it's built on that work we've done that Yoshi has done with Open Radioss. But now it's showcasing how it's sped very quickly to Altire, CIQ, and Intel working together on this important code. That theme of openness permeates very well. This has been a great showcase of what it can mean in a time when technologies are just moving so fast. It's very difficult to stay on edge.

Dave LaDuke:

Speaking of themes, I can break in one more time and just say that our theme for the show was inspired by a graph we've been generating from Apple data that we pulled from the Fedora project. That shows that Rocky, week by week, is growing, increasing its market share. It's the fastest-growing enterprise Linux now in the world. Our theme for that event is celebrating that the right growth is to aspire higher. We hope that we achieve that goal at the show and create some excitement around the incredible energy and adoption of Rocky Linux.

Tips for SC22 [47:56]

Zane Hamilton:

Thank you, Dave. Brock, you pointed out something important earlier, especially for people. It's their first time. One of the things that were a good first-time tip is to make sure you wear comfortable shoes. These events are long, and you are on your feet a lot, so wear comfortable shoes. 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. One that's important is to stay hydrated. It's easy to run between events and booths and not drink enough. And that can cause some problems, headaches, those kinds of things. Carry water with you. Stay hydrated. I will go to Rose. Do you have any first time tips for just conference tips in general?

Rose Stein:

I have a question actually real quick first.

Zane Hamilton:

Certainly.

Rose Stein:

Can I shake hands with a robot, like the high five? Is that going to happen there?

Zane Hamilton:

Good question. Maybe

Rose Stein:

I want that to happen.

Brock Taylor:

Can never say, you never know.

Rose Stein:

Okay. That's amazing.

Zane Hamilton:

Does a robot dog count?

Rose Stein:

Sorry, what was that?

Zane Hamilton:

I said does a robot dog count? I seen those floating around quite often lately

Rose Stein:

At the conference. They're going to be running around. That would be weird.

Zane Hamilton:

I don't know. That would be cool, but I don't know.

Rose Stein:

That would be cool. That would be cool. Or do they whine like your dog does?

Zane Hamilton:

That one's not mine today.

Rose Stein:

Oh, it wasn't. My dog's in my room too. She can hear the other dog. She's looking around like, where is this coming from? Comfortable shoes, water. I don't know if there's, like, a camera. Can we take pictures there?

Zane Hamilton:

That's a good question.

Rose Stein:

Is there, is that a yes?

Brock Taylor:

Absolutely. Yeah.

Dave LaDuke:

Yes, we're actually just, we're going to.

Brock Taylor:

There is going to be a lot of press there.

Dave LaDuke:

Yeah. Take a lot of pictures, everybody takes videos, and we'll make a little highlight reel after the event to share with our audience. Thanks.

Rose Stein:

Love it. I just got another message that you guys probably see too. Eat! That is an issue with you all. Okay. I will be there. We are making sure that we have snacks and things to eat. Water is important, but you got to keep your brain power going. Easy to fade as you go. Snack. We'll have snacks in our booth. You guys just came over to our booth. I'll hook you up. You'll be all good to go. 521.

Zane Hamilton:

That's right.

Rose Stein:

That's it. All right. See you there.

Zane Hamilton:

Thank you, Rose. Justin, we've done this at a lot of different conferences, just not as SC. What would you pass along?

Justin Burdine:

My encouragement is to come by and have a conversation. We are dying to find out what you guys are up to and how we can help. How can we provide value with the stuff we're making? We're excited about it and dying to talk to you about it. It's funny that our motto is Aspire higher. Because most of us are six feet. I know I'm six-eight, so if you see the giant bald guy, just come by and say hi. Like he's, he's a really friendly guy. That's me. Looking forward to it.

Zane Hamilton:

Thank you, Justin. Dickerson, I'm not going to go with Dave. It's too confusing. You've been doing this quite a bit lately from recent experiences.

Dave Dickerson:

Coming out of the pandemic, has that LinkedIn QR code ready? Only some people got business cards. Only some people want to do that. And that's another easy way to connect, have that QR code ready and maybe in a notepad. Just have a thank you message ready to copy, paste, and drop. Those little connections, however, you can have them help.

Zane Hamilton:

Have you seen people print those out and like sticking over the back of their phone or anything, Dave?

Dave Dickerson:

There are cooler pieces of technology that you can do beyond that. You can print the QR code out. There are digital ones that are also being done where you can tap and utilize NFC to transfer your data. Do not transfer your data, but share contact information that way. Little things like that to have ready.

Zane Hamilton:

There you go. Forrest, you've also been to a couple of these recently.

Forrest Burt:

My first big tip and the first thing I have on my mind is I want to echo the photographic component of everything. Document the event, take photos and generate that material to help capture this momentous occasion of everyone coming back. I'm big on photography, capturing events, and stuff like that, so I cannot echo that enough. That'd be cool. On another level, the physical level of things I want to echo, make sure you take care of yourself, drink water, eat, have easy snacks, etc. Those smoothies, whenever you get yourself from the Walgreens across the street from the hotel.

Zane Hamilton:

Thank you, Forrest. Dave, you're bringing up questions now, Dave Dickerson.

Sharing Your LinkedIn Profile [53:42]

Dave Dickerson:

In the actual LinkedIn app, you can click on the search bar at the top. I'm doing it right now to ensure I'm going in the right direction. 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. I'll go ahead and show mine if it's visible. But it'll give your image and the QR code that goes directly to your LinkedIn profile. You can save that image or have that up with the latest iOS update. You can quickly change your background on your phone. You can always have that as an option too. You change your background on your phone and then share it that way. You don't have to worry about the speed of wifi connectivity inside this space.

Zane Hamilton:

Absolutely. And if you guys are taking pictures and documenting stuff, make sure if we're in it, tag us on YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, and all of those. Please do. Ian, please tell me what you would suggest.

Ian Kaneshiro:

Unfortunately, I'm not in a position to make suggestions because this isn't only my first SC and my first conference in general. Like Jonathon, SE will be my first conference, so I'm writing down all these tips so I can survive and enjoy the whole thing.

Zane Hamilton:

You've been to a few conferences before. Very nice. Looking forward to Itan the real day. God, love.

Dave Godlove:

I would give a perspective so I used to attend a scientific conference that was pretty big, the Society for Neuroscience Conference, every year. And so I can give a perspective if you're not new to conferences, but you're used to attending more scientific conferences, and you're coming to scI can give you some different things. It used to be that I would prioritize primarily poster presentations at the scientific conference, secondarily scientific talks. And then after that, if I had time, or if there was something specific I wanted to see that was specific to my research, I would go to the show floor. And things are very different at sc, right? Because if you're, so I would prioritize that because my priority is like meeting people and making relationships and talking to people.

The best place to do that is in front of a poster discussing some new idea at a scientific conference. But at SC, the best place to do that is on the show floor, you know, checking out some new technology or some, some new software or something like that. It's different if you're used to going to scientific shows. Go into a trade show like SC, where the floor is the most significant thing. And then after that, if you're like me and you're trying to make relationships and talk to people, the second most important thing is probably bs, birds of a feather. And then panel discussions and stuff like that are also really great. But yeah, definitely prioritize the show floor.

Zane Hamilton:

Are you all available on Sunday or Monday? Depending on the time of day, there will be some people that are starting to arrive on Monday. If you want to reach out, a handful of us will be there.

Dave Dickerson:

Zane, I arrive in Dallas at 10:30, and I'll be going almost directly to the Dell HPC community meetup in that area. A hundred percent reach out to us, and we can set up some time to meet.

Zane Hamilton:

Brock, you gave a tip. Do you have any more tips that we have missed so far?

Brock Taylor:

The hydration is important, but on the show floor, again, it's very loud and noisy, and by the second or third day, you can lose your voice. Somebody once told me that even when talking, try to project from your diaphragm deeply. You have to 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 volume, you can lose your voice pretty easily. Now I'll admit it's my dog whining, and if she lost her voice right now, that would be okay. But typically, I'm very hoarse by Wednesday, my God. I need to go home by Thursday. It's an interesting event, but all good tips for every event.

Zane Hamilton:

That's great. And we actually do have a link.

Brock Taylor:

There's a good tip in the comments as well. There's usually food you can get on the show floor, and the restaurants nearby will be packed. Right around the conference center, all those restaurants will be packed almost all the time. But if you've got time, you want a nice lunch or something. And often, you have to plan to get a little further out, and then you can get into restaurants more easily.

Zane Hamilton:

That area is on the side of downtown. It might be a trip to get away from the stuff that's right there by it. It's a downtown area with not a lot of restaurants, so you will have to take a ride. Alright, Mr. LaDuke, you've been doing this for a while. Any advice?

Dave LaDuke:

I have yet to go to supercomputing shows before. 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 on the trade show floor. Do not purchase, do not eat. Thank you.

Zane Hamilton:

Thank you, Dave. And we'll finish up with Jonathon. Do you have any advice for us from past conference experience, SC, anything like that?

Jonathon Anderson:

The only thing that has yet to be said, there's too much to do. Feel free to stretch yourself thin and try to do everything. Come back next year. But I echo Dave's suggestion to focus on the booths. The booths are sound. It's tempting to flip around the convention or the exhibit hall and get a little bit of, not very much, everything. Take what time you can and dig in, actually get to know people, and meet them. Those relationships last beyond the show floor, where I've gotten the most value.

Zane Hamilton:

We are about out of time, guys. I appreciate you coming. I'm looking forward to seeing you all in person. 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 and working on. Just be glad to see people in person. Come by, and say hi. Tag us in pictures, like, and subscribe, and we will see you next week. Thank you, guys.