Michael Behrendt

Passionate about (cloud) technology. IBM Distinguished Engineer for serverless & Cloud Functions. Tweets are my own.

[Jay Gambetta @jaygambetta]

Last week we unveiled a full-scale model of IBM Quantum System One at Chicago O’Hare

In collaboration with @UChicago @UChicagoPME, @APSphysics & @united, this installation celebrates a milestone in quantum: the first IBM quantum computer designed for data centers.

With 60,000+ daily visitors, we hope it inspires even more curiosity in quantum computing.

[Jay Gambetta @jaygambetta]

I am pleased to announce that an early-access preview of the upgraded IBM Quantum Platform is now available. The upgraded introduces several critical new capabilities (see https://t.co/IzZzVgewJt)

[Michael Behrendt @michael_beh]

@themsaid is this primarily driven by Lambda 'just' being more expensive per cpu-second? in other words...if Lambda offered the same per cpu-sec price as what you can get via EC2 -- how would the comparison look like?

[Gábor SAMU @gabor_samu]

#IBM Spectrum #LSF on #IBMCloud: Functional and Performance Updates https://t.co/kKYsk6yfVH #HPC #hybridcloud #hybridhpc

[Michael Behrendt @michael_beh]

@stevebot @tross Depending on your flight schedule — if you arrive early in the morning, it can be beneficial to book a room for that night, so you don‘t have to hang around for potentially many hours before you can check in and rest

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

"Should we treat tech and software engineering as a profit center?"

I can't answer this question, but here's some food for thought.:

All but one company which was founded the past 50 years and became a top 12 company by market cap treats it as a profit center.

[Jay Gambetta @jaygambetta]

We're looking for IBM Quantum users and quantum enthusiasts to join the IBM Quantum Feedback Program. Participants will take part in surveys, interviews, and usability studies to help shape the future of our products and services. More here: https://t.co/JmfarM35TR

[Robert Nishihara @robertnishihara]

#RaySummit is happening in 1 week! If you want to learn how companies like @OpenAI, @Uber, @Cruise, @Shopify, @lyft, @Spotify, and @Instacart are building their next generation ML infrastructure, join us!

[Michael Behrendt @michael_beh]

@jim_havrilla out of curiosity -- which aspect about Ray is to you a million times easier than Ray? Given Ray also has a multiprocessing lib, I assume you're using something different than that?

[Michael Behrendt @michael_beh]

Hi @Delta — I just chatted with one of your representatives about getting help on a very basic problem, which is getting back a lost stroller — but she wasn’t helpful at all, to the point that I felt her behavior to be insulting. The situation is simple - can you pls help?

[Michael Behrendt @michael_beh]

@Delta one of your representatives is not helpful at all in trying to solve a very basic problem, which is getting back a lost stroller to me -- in fact, i find here behavior to be quite insulting

[Jay Gambetta @jaygambetta]

At IBM we want to improve the world through quantum computing while making sure our clients and users are secure. Many know about our progress in quantum computing but just as impressive are our contributions towards quantum safe algorithms, as recognized by @NIST

[ray @raydistributed]

🎉 Ray 1.13 is here! This release includes improved support for shuffling terabyte-scale and larger datasets (now in alpha), plus much more. Check out our release blog for the details: https://t.co/Zr93aQZNKl

[Michael Behrendt @michael_beh]

@mchmarny @GoogleOSS @Google Wow congrats — this is awesome! Would be great to touch base again :-)

[Michael Behrendt @michael_beh]

"Quantum Serverless" now part of our latest Quantum roadmap. Love working on this with @jaygambetta & team, this is going to be awesome

https://t.co/pawEVDRzHs

[Michael Behrendt @michael_beh]

Great to see this running on IBM Cloud Code Engine, our serverless compute platform:
"Predicting golfer performance at the Masters with Watson" https://t.co/9VMzTmfn7p

[Michael Behrendt @michael_beh]

Quite impressed by Spectrum Scale, our storage technology for HPC scenarios on the IBM Cloud. It can do 2.5 TB/sec(!) and beyond: https://t.co/K8st93kC0V Check it out here: https://t.co/VPUMLjHPzi

[Michael Behrendt @michael_beh]

@krishnan The term cloud is defined so broadly these days that serverless at least provides some guiding guardrails, keeping some of the most non-sensical interpretations out of scope

[Michael Behrendt @michael_beh]

@kelseyhightower @kelseyhightower sounds conceptually quite a bit like this :-) -- wdyt? https://t.co/rrUWOpYEA2

[Jay Gambetta @jaygambetta]

I’m glad to see our quantum systems starting to be used more and more by the condensed-matter community. Check out the recent results from University of Madrid, LBNL, University of Melbourne and more investigating spin dynamics. https://t.co/JiGS1ZLWRB