Supercomputing news inside baseball edition, episode 3

In a study of Harvard's cluster, the fifth of users running coding agents filed 56% of all job submissions. Matt Walters of Supercomputing News and I ask what that does to schedulers and junior sysadmins, plus Cirrascale's inference router that favours written-down GPUs, confidential computing from VAST Data and NVIDIA, whether general-purpose LLMs should learn to hack, the Genesis Mission report, and drone strikes on Yandex data centres. CHAPTERS 00:00 Claude and the six astronomical units 02:52 The Genesis Mission report 04:25 Cirrascale and the written-down GPU 11:00 Fencing in agents, and should LLMs learn to hack? 18:10 MIT's three-person sysadmin team 26:55 Harvard: agents file 56% of jobs 32:21 Drone strikes on Yandex data centres #AI #HPC #Supercomputing #AIAgents #ConfidentialComputing #ResearchComputing