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Education, HPC, and Dog Food
Sep. 27th, 2019 11:08 pmVictoria has a public holiday today for the holy religion of Australian Rules Football. Haven't a moderate interest at best in the game, I took the opportunity to finish some studies, specifically a course on Noongar Language and Culture run by Curtin University. It seemed appropriate that having spent so much of my youth in Perth that I should at least learn something of the indigenous language and being the International Year of Indigenous Languages. I received a near-perfect score, 98%, with one error relating to getting a contemporary hip-hop artist's song title incorrect. Overall, it wasn't bad, a little light on the language component, a little heavy on the history, and absolutely harrowing when it dealt with 20th-century history. Did you that Western Australia had a eugenicist in charge of indigenous people who deliberately wanted to breed out their "blackness" and that aboriginal people were banned from entering the Perth CBD from 1927 to 1954?
Also, today attended a virtual meeting at Otago University which dealt with building an educational philosophy portfolio and later in the day another virtual meeting with Pawsey and CSIRO on the International HPC Certification Forum; hopefully some people from CSIRO will become at least a little bit involved. On-topic, caught up with former workmate Laszlo K., who has shifted from CSIRO to WEHI, but still in the role of HPC systems architect, and also had a work meeting with a number of people from Altair, including their managing directory for the ASEAN region, Srirangam S. Alas, there wasn't much we could offer them because (a) we have very minimal problems with our current Slurm-based scheduling system and (b) if they do have anything we want, we'd be interested in that one component, not the entire ensemble, an issue I have raised before in the context of help-desk systems. Actually, it is rapidly becoming the focus of my MSc thesis, the relationship between business processes and rent-seeking, over engineering processes and FOSS toolkit development.
Most of my thesis will be written whilst in Zurich during the MSc residency, and whilst we're away nephew Luke will be looking after the place. He came over on Wednesday and we treated him to dog food for dinner. Not joking; the Aldi catalogue recently had a list of dog-treat recipes, using their normal human-grade products, I must quickly add and they were simply too good to refuse; rice, mince, and parsley., oat-meal, salmon, and tumeric., peanut butter, oatmeal, and coconut oil. What's not to like? This is how middle-upper income Australian dogs live, apparently. Woof. Finally, for one other major social activity for the week played Megatraveller on Thursday night, with the alternate and parallel character group. EDIT: Almost forgot to add, witnessed the effects of a remarkable "pole position" accidental driving stunt around the corner from home.
Also, today attended a virtual meeting at Otago University which dealt with building an educational philosophy portfolio and later in the day another virtual meeting with Pawsey and CSIRO on the International HPC Certification Forum; hopefully some people from CSIRO will become at least a little bit involved. On-topic, caught up with former workmate Laszlo K., who has shifted from CSIRO to WEHI, but still in the role of HPC systems architect, and also had a work meeting with a number of people from Altair, including their managing directory for the ASEAN region, Srirangam S. Alas, there wasn't much we could offer them because (a) we have very minimal problems with our current Slurm-based scheduling system and (b) if they do have anything we want, we'd be interested in that one component, not the entire ensemble, an issue I have raised before in the context of help-desk systems. Actually, it is rapidly becoming the focus of my MSc thesis, the relationship between business processes and rent-seeking, over engineering processes and FOSS toolkit development.
Most of my thesis will be written whilst in Zurich during the MSc residency, and whilst we're away nephew Luke will be looking after the place. He came over on Wednesday and we treated him to dog food for dinner. Not joking; the Aldi catalogue recently had a list of dog-treat recipes, using their normal human-grade products, I must quickly add and they were simply too good to refuse; rice, mince, and parsley., oat-meal, salmon, and tumeric., peanut butter, oatmeal, and coconut oil. What's not to like? This is how middle-upper income Australian dogs live, apparently. Woof. Finally, for one other major social activity for the week played Megatraveller on Thursday night, with the alternate and parallel character group. EDIT: Almost forgot to add, witnessed the effects of a remarkable "pole position" accidental driving stunt around the corner from home.
