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Work has been hellishly busy for me the past week as we're preparing for an outage on the supercomputer from Monday to Wednesday with a great variety of operating system upgrades, storage improvements (from CephFS to GPFS), network upgrades, and the addition of some 3,000 cores, and the removal of around 2,000 cores worth of older system units. For my own part, not only do I have new courses to run on the Thursday and Friday following the outage (which were filled in under 48 hours after the announcement), I spent a lot of time working my way through some fifty-plus example job scripts, modifying the existing ones so they would be compatible with the old build system, and writing new ones for the new build system. Unsurprisingly, there were a number of bugs and deprecations discovered along the way.
In the evenings I have been writing an article related to BLM, COVID-19, and Fake News; plenty of material of course. It's almost complete, but I was a little distracted by the Australian Prime Minister arguing against an elimination strategy; die on the altar of the economy, apparently. I responded with an Isocracy 'blog post entitled Elimination, not Suppression, which has generated some interest, and then shortly afterward, a call to arms following the Trump administration deciding to suppress CDC data from the public. I have suggested that all means; fair, foul, and illegal, should be used to ensure that the public has access to said data.
Despite the cool and overcast weather, I took to the bike today, hurtling my way some through the luscious green forests alongside the Main Yarra trail from Kew to Templestowe and eventually reaching Birrarung Park, where I caught up with Liana F., whom I hadn't seen for close to 25 years. Liana and I were old friends back in WA from the 80s, so we had plenty to catch up and talk about. In the recent decades, she's become the mother of four children, most now in their teenaged years, and has spent a number of years in northern New South Wales. It was good to meet up in the great outdoors, and the Birrarung was quite a beautiful setting - but so was the journey there and back.
In the evenings I have been writing an article related to BLM, COVID-19, and Fake News; plenty of material of course. It's almost complete, but I was a little distracted by the Australian Prime Minister arguing against an elimination strategy; die on the altar of the economy, apparently. I responded with an Isocracy 'blog post entitled Elimination, not Suppression, which has generated some interest, and then shortly afterward, a call to arms following the Trump administration deciding to suppress CDC data from the public. I have suggested that all means; fair, foul, and illegal, should be used to ensure that the public has access to said data.
Despite the cool and overcast weather, I took to the bike today, hurtling my way some through the luscious green forests alongside the Main Yarra trail from Kew to Templestowe and eventually reaching Birrarung Park, where I caught up with Liana F., whom I hadn't seen for close to 25 years. Liana and I were old friends back in WA from the 80s, so we had plenty to catch up and talk about. In the recent decades, she's become the mother of four children, most now in their teenaged years, and has spent a number of years in northern New South Wales. It was good to meet up in the great outdoors, and the Birrarung was quite a beautiful setting - but so was the journey there and back.
