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Workshops, Conferences, etc
Jul. 24th, 2019 10:52 pmFirst two days of this week were mostly taken up with conducting my regular day-long lecture-workshops, Introduction to Linux and High Performance Computing and Advanced Linux and Shell Scripting for HPC. Whilst I typically hold these classes with a maximum of 20 researchers, with some 700 people on the waiting lists I allowed up to 40 to register for the two classes, booked a larger venue, and had an assistant present for part of the day (getting people to login to the system for the first time is often the biggest challenge, at least in terms of time and disruption). Appropriately I also submitted my first assessed piece for my MHed, which was on the most recent workshop I've designed on Linux Regular Expressions. Also on continuing levels of appropriateness, there was a Board meeting for the International HPC Certification Forum on Tuesday night, and I've found myself continuing for another year as the topic chair for HPC Knowledge.
Apropos the Forum, I'm travelling to Sydney on Sunday for a few days where I'll be presenting at the ARDC Skilled Workforce Summit, on the HPC Certification Forum in general and Australia and New Zealand's contributions in particular. At the end of next month, I also have a trip to Perth where I'll be discussing the matter in further detail at the HPC Advisory Council. The month after that is a conference at ANU for Challenges in High Performance Computing, where I have submitted a paper on Universal Numbers; I haven't heard back from the organisers on that one however. After that, it'll be time for the European holiday, which will be the longest streak of annual leave that I've taken since starting at the University four years ago.
In other more minor items of news, ran a session of Eclipse Phase on Sunday, entitled The Gates of Wrath where the PC proxies have still managed to keep transhumanity largely alive from multiple threat vectors and have returned to that devastated wasteland known as Earth, of all places. It will be interesting to see if the players can come up some sort of "friendly AI" to resolve their most immediate problems. On another pop-culture kick, because I have a little bit of free time at the moment, I've been reading Ellis/Robertson's Transmetropolitan, only some 20+ years after it was published. Such is the nature of cultural products; every new product must compete with the history of all other cultural products.
Apropos the Forum, I'm travelling to Sydney on Sunday for a few days where I'll be presenting at the ARDC Skilled Workforce Summit, on the HPC Certification Forum in general and Australia and New Zealand's contributions in particular. At the end of next month, I also have a trip to Perth where I'll be discussing the matter in further detail at the HPC Advisory Council. The month after that is a conference at ANU for Challenges in High Performance Computing, where I have submitted a paper on Universal Numbers; I haven't heard back from the organisers on that one however. After that, it'll be time for the European holiday, which will be the longest streak of annual leave that I've taken since starting at the University four years ago.
In other more minor items of news, ran a session of Eclipse Phase on Sunday, entitled The Gates of Wrath where the PC proxies have still managed to keep transhumanity largely alive from multiple threat vectors and have returned to that devastated wasteland known as Earth, of all places. It will be interesting to see if the players can come up some sort of "friendly AI" to resolve their most immediate problems. On another pop-culture kick, because I have a little bit of free time at the moment, I've been reading Ellis/Robertson's Transmetropolitan, only some 20+ years after it was published. Such is the nature of cultural products; every new product must compete with the history of all other cultural products.
