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- National Weather Service investigates tornado damage at Montgomery Co., finds multiple locations affected
- Joe Rogan contracted COVID after urging listeners not to get vaccinated
- How to reach the C-Suite Allocator, from investors who did it
- How Businesses Can Increase ROI in Their HPC Environment
| Posted: 01 Sep 2021 04:09 PM PDT MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) – As Tim Simpkins examined the damage to Montgomery County left by Tuesday’s storm, he is thankful things weren’t worse. "Just the fence line – an electric fence goes under these trees and we keep the cattle out of the woods, and you can just see it has destroyed a lot of big, big old trees that’s been here for years. He basically touched here; looks like they’ve done a lot of damage to the woods. Thank goodness the lesson, no damage to the house, "said Tim Simpkins. The storm also destroyed part of the roof of a barn and left scattered tree branches. "Well, I heard and it’s part of life, you know. In the season and the biblical times there will be storms, earthquakes and various places so we see it all happening all the time, "Simpkins said. The Simpkins property was one of several National Weather Service (NWS) surveys in Blacksburg the morning after the storm. The team followed their path – replenishing their impact. “If there has been damage from a severe thunderstorm or tornado, it will really help build climatology and understand the climatology of weather conditions in southwest Virginia,” said Phil Hysell of the NWS from Blacksburg. However, experts say they are not surprised that a tornado may have touched down briefly. "We were aware of the weather conditions. Anytime you have the remnants of a tropical system, you have a lot of what we call windshear in the atmosphere, which just means the winds turn with height, and when you have those conditions in place. , you have several. .the gradients in place to be able to produce tornadoes, so that was something we expected. And while they’re not common in this region, remnants of tropical systems are one of the scenarios where you see the potential for tornadoes, "Hysell said. The storm’s track took them south along the Tyler Road area, as well as northeast to Christiansburg near Peppers Ferry Rd., And even north of Blacksburg. Copyright 2021 WDBJ. All rights reserved. |
| Joe Rogan contracted COVID after urging listeners not to get vaccinated Posted: 01 Sep 2021 03:36 PM PDT Podcast host Joe Rogan – who has openly criticized the need for COVID-19 vaccines – has been diagnosed with the coronavirus. The 54-year-old announcer revealed he contracted the coronavirus from a recent social media post. "I GOT COVID. My apologies, but we need to move the show from Nashville to Sunday, October 24th. Much love to you all, "he wrote alongside a video of himself explaining his situation. In the clip, Rogan said he felt “very weary”, adding, “I had a headache and just felt exhausted” after several tour dates in Florida. He added that he had been quarantined from the rest of his family and had taken a COVID test which came back positive. Following the result, he “threw the kitchen sink on it, all kinds of medicine.” The drug Rogan said he took was "monoclonal antibodies, ivermectin, Z-Pak, prednisone, everything. I also got NAD infusion and vitamin infusion and did it three days in a row. Here we are on Wednesday and I feel good. Ivermectin has not recommended by the FDA as a treatment for COVID-19. "You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, all of you. Stop it, "the Federal Food and Drug Administration tweeted last month alongside a link to an article titled “Why you shouldn’t use ivermectin to treat or prevent COVID-19. “Ivermectin is approved for humans and animals, however, animal drugs that are too concentrated can be extremely toxic to humans. Rogan has been involved in many coronavirus controversies in the past. In an April episode of his popular Spotify podcast "The Joe Rogan Experience", he advised "healthy" 21-year-olds do not get vaccinated. ” Are you in good health ? Rogan said. "Are you a healthy person? Like, listen, don’t do anything stupid but you should take care of yourself. You should – if you are a healthy person, exercise all the time, are young and eat well, I don’t think you have to worry about that, "he said. he declares. on the show. Dr Anthony Fauci then criticized the “Today” show host and said his comments were incorrect. "You talk about yourself in a vacuum," he said. "If you only want to care about yourself and not about society, then that’s okay. But you think to yourself, “Even though I am infected, I could harm someone else even if I have no symptoms,” and that is why you need to be careful and get the vaccine. . However, Rogan backed down on his controversial comments and clarified his statements. "I’m not a doctor, I’m a jerk," Rogan said in another episode. “I’m not a respected source of information, even for myself… But I at least try to be honest about what I’m saying.” He added, "I am not an anti-vax person. I have said that I believe they are safe and I encourage a lot of people to take them. My parents were vaccinated. I just said if you are a young and healthy person you don’t need it. His staff at Spotify were reportedly outraged last month by his opinions and comments. “I am personally disturbed by his transphobic comments and worry about how he might spread misinformation,” an employee wrote last year on the internal network app Fishbowl, Insider reported. Rogan then criticized the COVID-19 vaccine passports, which provide proof of vaccination and claimed they would bring the United States “one step closer to dictatorship.” |
| How to reach the C-Suite Allocator, from investors who did it Posted: 01 Sep 2021 03:17 PM PDT Few of the senior asset allocation officers started their careers aspiring to the positions they occupy today. Instead, they grew up in it, dipping their toes into small pools until they stumbled into the ocean. At least that’s what happened to Catherine Ulozas, CIO at Drexel University’s investment office. After graduating from an MBA, Ulozas set his sights on a career in corporate finance. She started as an analyst at a large insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut, and from there she moved into corporate finance. Then, in an unexpected turn of events, she became a bond trader. "All of these things that happened early in my career were opportunities that I saw and applied to or people asked me to apply for," Ulozas said. Institutional investor. "I really didn’t know. One day I was an analyst in a government bond office, and the next day the head of the unit came in and said to me, "You are a mortgage backed trader. ” Just like that.” Jose Gonzalez, investment manager at the Teachers Retirement System in Illinois, had a similar experience. "My goal in life was to be a trader," he said. “But my career path has changed for personal reasons.” Elizabeth Burton, CIO of the Employees’ Retirement System of Hawaii, majored in history and French during her undergraduate studies in Washington and Lee. She had no intention of going into finance until a summer internship in a fund of funds put her on the path. "There are a ton of different jobs in investing," Burton said. II. “Who knows what you’re going to want to be on the road.” As a mortgage-backed trader, Ulozas remembered feeling scared and upset. She had a mortgage, but that was the extent of her expertise in the matter. Over time, she took the hit, gaining skills and tips in the lion’s den. "I will always be grateful for those opportunities that were sometimes above me and sometimes, quite frankly, below me," said Ulozas. “They all taught me a lot – things that I took with me, skills, knowledge and the ability to have a larger group of work colleagues than I would have had if I had just let myself be to classify.” Go up or outOver the past four decades, Charles Skorina has seen institutional talent like Ulozas and Burton rise through the ranks and take on top positions. Skorina is a Managing Partner of Charles A. Skorina & Company, an executive search firm that recruits leadership candidates for asset managers, endowments, foundations, family offices, capital companies -investment and hedge funds. He has contributed to countless research, including the appointment of investment advisor Alan Biller and Associates’ president and CEO last year. According to Skorina, there are two ways to get a high-level job in an institution: to progress by succession or to relocate. For example, most foundations, like those at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and the University of Pennsylvania, have small but powerful staff ranging from 12 to 20, making the succession window obvious and tiny. "Most of the staff are small," Skorina said. II. "With a staff of five, six or seven, everyone supports each other. So you are trained in a versatile way whether you like it or not. But most of the successor choices for senior roles are not internal. At large institutions, succession "looks terrible," Skorina said – and that’s where executive search firms like hers come in. When looking for executive talent, for example in non-profit institutions, Skorina said he values diversity of experience, but particularly seeks solid work in private markets. "Number one: do they have private market experience? Skorina said. "It is interesting to select managers of private equity and venture capital. ” At public pensions, recruiters are looking for more political skills. Administrative and relational management are priorities for decision-makers in these institutions, Skorina said. “We must come to an agreement with the elected councils,” he added. "In most cases, it’s less about investing and more about getting along and communicating. Allocator Breeding areasSome investment stores are better at moving people than others. In Skorina’s view, only a small portion of existing endowments, foundations and hospital systems are managed by investment managers with strong training programs and strong upward mobility opportunities. The University of Washington is one such institution. Its investment office has one of the strongest training programs in the country for young talent, according to Skorina. But others also exist. At Drexel University, the investment office offers co-ops – part-time jobs approved by the university – to undergraduate and graduate students interested in a career in financial services. At the Texas Teacher Retirement System, employees are encouraged to participate in TRS University, an in-house program that allocates at least 20 hours per year for various career development courses and presentations. Activities range from a one-off presentation by an industry leader to week-long courses in corporate finance and accounting, according to CIO Jase Auby. Auby said TRS also has internal mentoring programs. According to Auby, a public pension plan is a great place to start a career. On the one hand, employees are exposed to all asset classes when working with the portfolio of a pension plan. "Your exposure is not siled to a single asset class," he said. "In addition, you have routine interactions with the top executives of the most important investment firms in the investment management industry. There is no better foundation or training for a future as an investor. At the Kellogg Foundation, the investment team offers junior analysts an onboarding plan, a "buddy," mentorship and tuition reimbursement for certifications and graduate degrees, according to CIO Carlos Rangel. "We believe in promoting a flat organizational model where analysts learn and practice investing alongside the leading investment professionals on our team," he said via email. “Permanent networking”While some asset owners are large enough to accommodate streamlined training programs, others, like ERS Hawaii, are small offices with a core team of three or four people. For ISD Elizabeth Burton, training is done by doing the job every day and listening to the wise advice of seasoned colleagues. "I’m the junior staff," Burton said. "In a lot of ways, they mentor me. In many cases, they have decades of more investment experience than I do. TRS Illinois has an equally small team: understaffed and under-resourced, staff have experienced high turnover lately, said Gonzalez, who oversees the fund’s Diverse and Emerging Manager program. Despite these challenges, TRS of Illinois offers a rotation program for new hires. Under this program, junior employees are placed in one asset class for one year before moving to another. "If we choose to park in an asset class, that’s what we do," Gonzalez said. A strong network is perhaps more important than a training program, Gonzalez said. For junior (and senior) talent with ambitious career goals, it’s a good idea to get a position that allows for frequent networking opportunities, he said. "If you want to make the jump to the allocator, work for a consulting firm or a general partner – a place where you are constantly networked," he added. Networking is the most fundamental part of his job, Gonzalez said. For someone just starting out in their career, a well-connected network of peers and mentors can make the application process easier. "You can also easily jump from one place to another," Gonzalez said. For the next generation of institutional talent, the beneficiaries interviewed for this story universally warned against locking up. Instead, they encouraged the development of a diverse set of skills, to understand who turns the gears inside a company, and to be flexible on the way to the top. "Don’t plan your career on a fixed basis," Ulozas said. “The best thing is to be open.” Auby expressed a similar sentiment: "Be open to the opportunities presented to you and don’t compare yourself to others. “ |
| How Businesses Can Increase ROI in Their HPC Environment Posted: 01 Sep 2021 02:09 PM PDT For half a century, supercomputers have performed the tasks that spark people’s imaginations – analyzing enough data to simulate nuclear tests, mapping the human genome, and targeting precise locations to drill new oil wells. And they take on even bigger roles today. These high-performance computing (HPC) systems are fueling a new wave of data-intensive applications that rely on artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), 3D imaging (GPU) and the Internet of Things. objects (IoT). HPC systems are big and powerful, but sometimes things can go wrong. They perform billions of calculations per second, and HPC clusters typically consist of thousands of networked compute servers. If they go down or incorrectly map connections to major data stores, they can delay important projects. In addition, they require intensive maintenance, updates and system checks. Given the great importance of HPC – as a foundation for technical and societal progress – it is essential that these systems operate at the highest level. Many organizations are devoting the kind of attention their HPC infrastructure needs. However, some choose to invest more in hardware and software than in optimizing and supporting the system. This happens for a variety of reasons. HPC users in some large organizations are known to appreciate the cache that comes with using one of the most powerful computers in the world. When they want to go faster, they invest in “horsepower” – additional knots and accelerators. Some IT managers running HPC systems find having multiple high-power systems with redundancy so much that it is less necessary to invest in support. Others are reluctant to regularly update long-running HPC systems because they believe the changes could inject unnecessary doses of complexity and risk. Savvy organizations realize that HPC needs to be continuously nurtured, improved, updated, and optimized to get the most out of their investments. This can be done in-house, if they have the expertise, or by contracting with an external vendor specializing in third-party support if they don’t have the resources or prefer to devote them to more strategic activities for their business. Here are some ways that organizations can optimize their HPC systems and increase the return on investment of their HPC environments. Perform regular health checksBasic surveillance often falls low on organizations’ priority list. Make sure you get checkups at least twice a year – every quarter, if possible. Check the software and firmware versions. Check interdependencies to avoid introducing incompatibilities that could infiltrate the environment and affect availability and performance. Proactive maintenance of the liquid cooling system can also prevent many problems. In the event of a failure, the system could heat up and damage processors and other components. be proactiveRegular health checks make sure the system is working as it is supposed to be today. But what about the future? Does the organization consider different types of downstream projects that might require new applications, new workloads, and new configurations? Rather than waiting for a project to come through, consider new versions of hardware, software, storage, and networking that might create more flexibility when the time comes and keep compute performance at peak levels. Follow good practicesIn terms of performance, organizations should review industry best practices based on their use of the system. Businesses need to look at the cases they are working on, how they configure their systems, the applications they run, and the system architecture on which the applications run. If they change a set of workloads, the old configuration may not be as efficient anymore. If the data they initially had is on-premises and they want to include more data from the edge, they may need to adjust their system architecture. Keep critical spare parts on handOrganizations looking for short response times for critical issues can arrange with a support provider to keep important spares on site. For example, compute blades. If a node malfunctions for a few hours, tasks can be distributed to other nodes. But the management servers that host the cluster management software are critical – if one of them fails, it impacts the entire system. Don’t forget about network switching. If systems don’t have the right connection between their compute blades and data storage, they lose performance. Businesses need to maintain communication and data flow between where their data is stored and where it needs to go. Any problem with network components and switches will impact system performance, which could delay the introduction of a new product. Let a third-party expert troubleshootA reliable HPC services expert can help organizations spend fewer resources on system maintenance and optimization and focus on higher value activities. HPC systems can integrate IP from many different vendors. From a sourcing perspective, an organization can handle all interactions with external vendors – or it can contract with a support vendor to manage the process for them. The third party can fix technological issues or, if that is the preferred option, simply identify the problem and let the customer deal directly with the supplier. Additionally, on-site customer engineers can serve as an extension to customer staff and help meet performance SLAs through proactive maintenance. Think of HPC as a serviceThe purchase and maintenance of HPC environments requires huge initial capital expenditures (capex) and ongoing operational costs (opex) to cover energy expenses, human resources, and maintenance and repair costs. Shifting to an operating model, where the organization moves to the cloud and pays month-to-month, removes that initial blow that many small organizations cannot afford. Large organizations can also maximize their flexibility through this model. For example, an automaker that has a budget for a data center but needs to double its computing power to accelerate the development of autonomous driving can take advantage of cloud models – and cloud-like models providing on-premise services. – to continue the search on Track. “[In] in the last five or six years there has been a constant transition from HPC to the cloud“Srini Chari, Managing Partner of Cabot Partners Group, a Connecticut IT analyst firm, said.” This is the fastest growing segment of the HPC market. What is happening here is that many companies find that it is a real headache for them to manage the infrastructure due to the rate and pace of technological change and the skills required to operate the CHP on premise. So instead of buying technology, they seek to use it as a cloud service. " ConclusionHPC systems are among the most impactful drivers of technology today. They continue to run complex simulations, and they will be used to run the AI applications that companies will use to grow their businesses in the future. To get the most out of AI, organizations will need to optimize their HPC environments. Making sure they’re running smoothly and avoiding risk will help organizations drive business value. _______________________________________ About Cyrille Schulz  Cyrille Schulz is product manager for the HPE Pointnext service portfolio focused on high-end HPC products such as HPE Cray supercomputers and liquid-cooled Apollos. His responsibilities include defining and executing the overall service management strategy, developing new service capabilities and building the end-to-end value chain, from portfolio to delivery. Cyrille has service experience across the entire technology spectrum with a passion for developing services that deliver successful business results while being profitable and across the entire portfolio.Copyright © 2021 IDG Communications, Inc. |
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