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Several weeks ago I made the announcement to the committee that I intend to resign as president of the RPG Review Cooperative, and as editor of the eponymous journal which I have edited for over ten years. I'll see out the year, and will continue to assist on the technical side of things. The hunt is on for one or more people who are willing and able to take these roles, and it is my intention to follow through with assistance and mentorship. Yet as one exits one door, another opens, I have become the University Outreach Officer for the International Society for Philosophers. There is a publishing arm associated with the Society as well, which will be a handy opportunity to compile a number of essays on pragmatism and pantheism in particular that I have written or presented over the years.
Workwise, the three-day outage of the Spartan HPC system was completed successfully. New filesystem (Spectrum Scale aka GPFS) replacing CephFS, new LMod/Easybuild system in place, and a few thousand new cores with the old cloud partition retired, and of course, extensive additions and testing to our sample job scripts, and a re-working of the entire website workflow (it needed it). Today was the first of two days of classes, literally hours after completing the outage and all went reasonably well. It followed after a two-hour tutorial for my course in higher education; and with an HPC certification forum the evening before. All this said, I am somewhat looking forward to a few day's leave next week, even if The Plague means that my ticket to Adelaide is useless.
As mentioned in my last post, I've put together a short essay on a couple of Fake News issues (local BLM, global hydroxychloroquine), where I raise the question on whether free speech is limited by at less some association with the truth. It is a curious feeling that to watch the continuing unfolding of the global pandemic with its still worsening toll of infections (15.4m) and fatalities (631K) when comparing it with my own, micro-level, health. Compared with this time last year, my weight is down some 22kg less (15 in the past three months), and my fitness levels continue to improve. A biennial check for bowel cancer (Australia does this by post, which is somewhat amusing) has come back negative, and I have a hepatobiliary telehealth booking in the future for my occasional stomach issues.
Workwise, the three-day outage of the Spartan HPC system was completed successfully. New filesystem (Spectrum Scale aka GPFS) replacing CephFS, new LMod/Easybuild system in place, and a few thousand new cores with the old cloud partition retired, and of course, extensive additions and testing to our sample job scripts, and a re-working of the entire website workflow (it needed it). Today was the first of two days of classes, literally hours after completing the outage and all went reasonably well. It followed after a two-hour tutorial for my course in higher education; and with an HPC certification forum the evening before. All this said, I am somewhat looking forward to a few day's leave next week, even if The Plague means that my ticket to Adelaide is useless.
As mentioned in my last post, I've put together a short essay on a couple of Fake News issues (local BLM, global hydroxychloroquine), where I raise the question on whether free speech is limited by at less some association with the truth. It is a curious feeling that to watch the continuing unfolding of the global pandemic with its still worsening toll of infections (15.4m) and fatalities (631K) when comparing it with my own, micro-level, health. Compared with this time last year, my weight is down some 22kg less (15 in the past three months), and my fitness levels continue to improve. A biennial check for bowel cancer (Australia does this by post, which is somewhat amusing) has come back negative, and I have a hepatobiliary telehealth booking in the future for my occasional stomach issues.
