The past couple of days have been dealing primarily with the Spartan upgrade. It was a massive change, involving switch upgrades and reconfiguration, driver and kernel upgrades, including iDrac, OFED, NVidia upgrades, Puppet reconfigurations, new storage filesystem for home and project directories, synching those directories (the slowest and most terrifying part really), a new upgrade to Slurm, new partitions, and an upgrade to the Nova OpenStack provisioning. To be fair, I had a fairly minimal role in all this (much of my time was dealing with the sync and taking the opportunity to update course material and Supercomputing with Linux), but it all went smoothly, and surprisingly according to timetable. This all puts up back in line for more work in the remaining of the week for the GPGPU partition.
The weekend was busy enough as well, with our irregular Cheesequest (white stilton, blue stilton, dutch smoked, vegan brie) with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ser_pounce and hathhalla visiting the asylum. It was also opportune to crack open a long-forgotten bottle of Pierre Naigeon beaujolais from 2008 which hadn't aged badly at all. After that it was a session of Dungeons & Dragons with Charlemagne's paladins dealing with rebellious Saxons and a werewolf monk. That night we went to The Astor to catch up with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
funontheupfield and Marie to see Star Wars: The Last Jedi. It was good without being great, on par with The Force Awakens. I admit I'm looking forward to the end of this series however. Apart form Kylo Ren's character being annoyingly petulant rather than threatening, it would be good to tie-up the mysticism of The Force. Indeed, if you want the rebels to win democraticise The Force. Curiously Sunday's RuneQuest game (assault against evil sorcerers) seemed somewhat apt.
Preparations are underway for a one-week end-of-year visit to Perth; tickets booked, Secret Santa stuff organised (for goodness sake Australia Post, hurry up with those deliveries, I ordered them weeks ago), the cat has a home in the duration courtesy of NinjaDan, and the other animals will make do. It'll be my third visit this year to The Western Lands, which is somewhat above the usual rate that I'm used to, although this year did have special circumstances. It's curious has many connections I still have with the place that I left some twenty-five years ago for the final time. I don't particularly like Perth aesthetically; the relentless heat, isolation, and suburbia is not really to my taste. But I have been fortunate to know so many good people over there. I'd better get a move on with arranging something.
The weekend was busy enough as well, with our irregular Cheesequest (white stilton, blue stilton, dutch smoked, vegan brie) with
ser_pounce and hathhalla visiting the asylum. It was also opportune to crack open a long-forgotten bottle of Pierre Naigeon beaujolais from 2008 which hadn't aged badly at all. After that it was a session of Dungeons & Dragons with Charlemagne's paladins dealing with rebellious Saxons and a werewolf monk. That night we went to The Astor to catch up with funontheupfield and Marie to see Star Wars: The Last Jedi. It was good without being great, on par with The Force Awakens. I admit I'm looking forward to the end of this series however. Apart form Kylo Ren's character being annoyingly petulant rather than threatening, it would be good to tie-up the mysticism of The Force. Indeed, if you want the rebels to win democraticise The Force. Curiously Sunday's RuneQuest game (assault against evil sorcerers) seemed somewhat apt.Preparations are underway for a one-week end-of-year visit to Perth; tickets booked, Secret Santa stuff organised (for goodness sake Australia Post, hurry up with those deliveries, I ordered them weeks ago), the cat has a home in the duration courtesy of NinjaDan, and the other animals will make do. It'll be my third visit this year to The Western Lands, which is somewhat above the usual rate that I'm used to, although this year did have special circumstances. It's curious has many connections I still have with the place that I left some twenty-five years ago for the final time. I don't particularly like Perth aesthetically; the relentless heat, isolation, and suburbia is not really to my taste. But I have been fortunate to know so many good people over there. I'd better get a move on with arranging something.
