adrian cockcroftWill AWS Have Anything New To Say About Sustainability at re:Invent 2024?There’s an old saying that any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered with a “no”. My hopes aren’t high, after spending the…2d ago2d ago
adrian cockcroftLooking forward to returning to Multicore World — (New Zealand February 2025)There are a few conferences I’ve attended around the world that are more about building communities than the content (although they often…4d ago4d ago
adrian cockcroftRISC-V — the CPU you didn’t know you already have…I just attended the RISC-V Summit (Oct 22nd, 2024 at the Santa Clara Convention Center) to get up to date on the latest developments. I’ve…Oct 23Oct 23
adrian cockcroftDeep dive into NVIDIA Blackwell Benchmarks — where does the 4x training and 30x inference…I’ve been trying to write this blog post since the announcements at GTC, and was planning to publish it as a story for The New Stack, but…Sep 24Sep 24
adrian cockcroftSigns that it’s time to leave a company…When the company stops growing, when the founder moves on, when HR is calling the shots, when the executives care more about real estate…Dec 31, 202313Dec 31, 202313
adrian cockcroftSustainability Talks from AWS re:Invent 2023 — Post Event Update with VideosThe Pantheon in Rome — Extremely sustainable architecture — photo by AdrianNov 26, 20231Nov 26, 20231
adrian cockcroftMeasuring Carbon is Not Enough — Unintended ConsequencesThere are plenty of problems in the way of measuring the carbon footprint of an IT workload, and I’ve been leading a Green Software…Nov 13, 20232Nov 13, 20232
adrian cockcroftAmazon 2022 Sustainability Report — 18 AWS Regions are 100% renewableAmazon released their 2022 sustainability report which includes an updated list of renewable AWS regions. For 2021 there were 12 AWS…Jul 18, 20231Jul 18, 20231
adrian cockcroftRapid development in R with lots of help from ChatGPTLike many people, I’ve been tinkering with ChatGPT to see what it can do, but I was working on developing some fairly complex analysis code…Jul 5, 2023Jul 5, 2023
adrian cockcroftWhat I learned at GlueCon 2023 — Tipping Points and Generative AII’ve presented at GlueCon many times over the last decade or so. It’s an unusual event, held at the end of May at an isolated hotel…Jun 2, 2023Jun 2, 2023