Jon Thor K - Blog https://jontk.com Thoughts on HPC, cloud infrastructure, and building platforms at scale Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:47:45 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Next.js using Feed for Node.js en Jon Thor K - Blog https://jontk.com/images/profile/placeholder-800x800.svg https://jontk.com All rights reserved 2026, Jon Thor K <![CDATA[Four HPC Platforms from Scratch. Here's What Actually Matters.]]> https://jontk.com/blog/zero-to-one-hpc-platforms https://jontk.com/blog/zero-to-one-hpc-platforms Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT hello@jontk.com (Jon Thor K) hpc founding-engineer career infrastructure slurm openstack bare-metal <![CDATA[Cloud Engineers Can't Do HPC. HPC Engineers Can't Do Cloud. AI Needs Both.]]> https://jontk.com/blog/hpc-skills-gap https://jontk.com/blog/hpc-skills-gap Mon, 20 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT hello@jontk.com (Jon Thor K) hpc cloud career bare-metal skills-gap slurm <![CDATA[The First Thing Finance Taught Me About Infrastructure Is That Microseconds Are Real]]> https://jontk.com/blog/lessons-from-trading-floor-microseconds-matter https://jontk.com/blog/lessons-from-trading-floor-microseconds-matter Mon, 11 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT hello@jontk.com (Jon Thor K) hpc finance low-latency millennium infrastructure numa <![CDATA[Self-Service HPC: The Gap Between the Dream and the Reality]]> https://jontk.com/blog/building-self-service-platforms-that-scale https://jontk.com/blog/building-self-service-platforms-that-scale Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT hello@jontk.com (Jon Thor K) hpc platform-engineering self-service hpcflow millennium slurm <![CDATA[They Said Multi-Tenant InfiniBand Was Impossible. We Did It Anyway.]]> https://jontk.com/blog/multi-tenant-hpc-security-impossible-made-possible https://jontk.com/blog/multi-tenant-hpc-security-impossible-made-possible Mon, 14 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT hello@jontk.com (Jon Thor K) hpc infiniband security multi-tenancy omni-path hpcflow <![CDATA[InfiniBand Is Not Magic. Here's What It Actually Does.]]> https://jontk.com/blog/infiniband-for-software-engineers https://jontk.com/blog/infiniband-for-software-engineers Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT hello@jontk.com (Jon Thor K) infiniband hpc networking rdma mpi omni-path <![CDATA[From CloudStack Bare Metal to Containers: Thirteen Years of HPC Evolution]]> https://jontk.com/blog/evolution-of-hpc-bare-metal-to-containers https://jontk.com/blog/evolution-of-hpc-bare-metal-to-containers Mon, 13 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT hello@jontk.com (Jon Thor K) hpc kubernetes bare-metal infiniband containers cloud-native <![CDATA[I've Spoken at ISC, Supercomputing, and NASA. Here's How CFPs Actually Work.]]> https://jontk.com/blog/conference-speaking-for-engineers https://jontk.com/blog/conference-speaking-for-engineers Mon, 25 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT hello@jontk.com (Jon Thor K) conference-speaking career hpc public-speaking <![CDATA[I've Been a Founding Engineer Four Times. Here's What the Role Actually Is.]]> https://jontk.com/blog/what-founding-engineer-means https://jontk.com/blog/what-founding-engineer-means Mon, 21 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT hello@jontk.com (Jon Thor K) career founding-engineer engineering-leadership startups hpc <![CDATA[How I Got Into HPC Without a CS Degree (And What Actually Opened Doors)]]> https://jontk.com/blog/career-advice-breaking-into-hpc https://jontk.com/blog/career-advice-breaking-into-hpc Mon, 16 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT hello@jontk.com (Jon Thor K) hpc career open-source no-degree slurm conference-speaking