HPC Social Noodles Award (2023)

  1. The whole CentOS debacle. If you know, you know. 417
  2. Awful communications from AMD for developers targeting ROCm 377
  3. For all the talk of Arm taking over the world, we still only have 2 HPC systems with Arm that are worth using. 366
  4. The UI/UX changes for Slack 360
  5. Removal/lack of support for AVX512 across the client HW stack from intel 351
  6. Infiniband Leadtimes. 6 + months for optics? You can't be serious? 333
  7. Table flip rage when my container was building for 5+ hours and a package download timed out and the entire thing was lost. 330
  8. I was trying to install pstree with apt-get pstree, but the package name was psmisc 321
  9. PMIx (and getting it to work) has sent me into a blind rage multiple times in the last week. I'm questioning all my life choices. 294
  10. "scontrol update state=resume" was the convention to get nodes back into idle, despite "resume" not being a state. I mentioned this to a vendor and we just looked at each other in silence. The following year's release was updated to allow "state=idle" 288
  11. I typed "gut status" into my terminal and realized it would be a really useful command to have. Damn. 273
  12. If I have to deal with <community>, I humbly request that someone just give me a painless death. 266
  13. C++ in HPC 265
  14. That one time I plugged in 110 volts to the experiment control panel connector that popped the tops off almost all of the TTL chips in the unit... 255
  15. IBM effectively blocking the expansion of Power to OEMs and downstream customers 248
  16. The default storage medium for Kubernetes Secrets is a string with Base64 encoding. Who are we trying to protect the data from? Anti-technology lobbyists? 243
  17. Spark. If you know, you know. 205





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Have you ever stumbled across a decision made in tech, high performance computing, or software that made you want to dump noodles on someone's head that made it so? No? Then it's a good time to start! HPC Social is presenting the first annual Noodles Award - a celebration and vote for the top bad life decisions (related to our work) that we have seen this year!


These are the nominations and final rankings of events, gripes, or even software attributes that made us want to dump noodles on someone's head this year!