Much of the past several days has been working on the final touches and printing edits required for Papers & Paychecks. The printers weren't getting my emails for whatever reason - but everything's been sorted following a 'phone call and new thread of emails. So hooray, after all these months the thing is finally off to print. And for that matter, when I haven't been doing Papers & Paychecks, I've been putting together the final pages on issue 35 and 36 of RPG Review. Appropriately I've had some good gaming days recently; Megatraveller last Wednesday, Eclipse Phase last weekend, and there was even a Cheesequest where we played Mice & Mystics, this time getting through chapter five with a minimum of fuss. Some work colleagues have coaxed me into running an RPG session at the end-of-year gathering; I've chosen to use the HeroQuest RPG rules (simple, easy to adapt), but the Eclipse Phase setting (transhumanism gone wrong).
Work continues to deal with the pointy-end of high perfomance computing. We're putting together a system which includes the latest kernel, the last NVidia drivers, the latest OFED, the latest OpenMPI, the latest Cumlus OS, the latest adapter cards, etc all with the great hope of pushing the system as a whole beyond the petaflop range. It's been a complex process and the staff have been doing some extraordinary work whilst at the same time poking various vendors on the bugs that we find along the journey. It's going to be quite a celebration when we iron these out and can bring users on to the new partition. In the meantime, a little introductory post I've been meaning to put up for a while: Rattus Norvegicus ESTs with BLAST and Slurm.
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caseopaya and I took nephew Luke out for his 27th birthday with his housemate Nick at the rather pleasant Sukho Thai restaurant last week. Today had Brendan E., and Paul E (founder of Polyester Books) over for lunch and a tour of the Willsmere grounds. Hadn't seen Paul for a number of years so the opportunity to catch up was very welcome. And a very unexpected catch-up ran into ozraptor4 who was visiting UniMelb as a waypoint from China for a fossil dig.
Work continues to deal with the pointy-end of high perfomance computing. We're putting together a system which includes the latest kernel, the last NVidia drivers, the latest OFED, the latest OpenMPI, the latest Cumlus OS, the latest adapter cards, etc all with the great hope of pushing the system as a whole beyond the petaflop range. It's been a complex process and the staff have been doing some extraordinary work whilst at the same time poking various vendors on the bugs that we find along the journey. It's going to be quite a celebration when we iron these out and can bring users on to the new partition. In the meantime, a little introductory post I've been meaning to put up for a while: Rattus Norvegicus ESTs with BLAST and Slurm.
Apart from the aforementioned CheeseQuest with
ser_pounce and hathhalla, caseopaya and I took nephew Luke out for his 27th birthday with his housemate Nick at the rather pleasant Sukho Thai restaurant last week. Today had Brendan E., and Paul E (founder of Polyester Books) over for lunch and a tour of the Willsmere grounds. Hadn't seen Paul for a number of years so the opportunity to catch up was very welcome. And a very unexpected catch-up ran into ozraptor4 who was visiting UniMelb as a waypoint from China for a fossil dig.