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Science! Synchrotron, Clusters, and more!
Oct. 18th, 2012 05:46 pmHad the opportunity to attend a one-day Matlab conference for release 2012b last Thursday, held at the lovely Melbourne Rendezvous Hotel; great location, rather average talks. On Sunday went to the OpenDay of the Australian Synchrotron; very surprised to see a little bit of my indirect work making an appearance in the introductory lecture. Whilst synchrotrons are more famous for the recreation of the first nanoseconds of the universe and those related sub-atomic particles (which is awesome enough), the Australian sync does somewhat more practical work in the health and material sciences.
On a somewhat related topic, we now have nearly all of the hardware for our new cluster installed; there's still not much public information that can be released on the matter except to say that it can reach a fairly impressive 45.9 teraflops, which makes it "somewhat better" than our Operton cluster, which is a little bit long in the tooth. As the project manager for our deliverables, I'm getting a little nervous about schedules, especially with so few tasks available in parallel (there is a unintentional double-barrelled pun there that only HPC project managers - a very rare breed - would get).
XCKD once famously remarked on the relationship between science and politics, and as such the good![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ddstory has provided an excellent contribution to the subject (telemann's response is beautiful anmd then there's a GOP senator who wants to cut science funding 'cause those dang researchers read too much). More locally, for all the nay-sayers (which included myself under some circumstances), Australia's carbon price is reducing emissions, and with potential decline in consumer prices on the way.
On a somewhat related topic, we now have nearly all of the hardware for our new cluster installed; there's still not much public information that can be released on the matter except to say that it can reach a fairly impressive 45.9 teraflops, which makes it "somewhat better" than our Operton cluster, which is a little bit long in the tooth. As the project manager for our deliverables, I'm getting a little nervous about schedules, especially with so few tasks available in parallel (there is a unintentional double-barrelled pun there that only HPC project managers - a very rare breed - would get).
XCKD once famously remarked on the relationship between science and politics, and as such the good
ddstory has provided an excellent contribution to the subject (telemann's response is beautiful anmd then there's a GOP senator who wants to cut science funding 'cause those dang researchers read too much). More locally, for all the nay-sayers (which included myself under some circumstances), Australia's carbon price is reducing emissions, and with potential decline in consumer prices on the way.