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tcpipIt's been a busy past few days with various events in the high-performance computing world. Our neighbouring partners, Melbourne Bioinformatics are in the process of having one of their clusters, 'Snowy', upgraded and integrated with Spartan. I raised the issue of ensuring reasonable compatibility of software for users and as a result I have found myself with a list of some six hundred and eighty two applications and versions that I have to install by the time of the move; I should have the first hundred done by the end of the week. Meanwhile, final preparations are underway for Spartan's admission into the Top500, aided by the addition of the GPGPU partition. On the basis of current metrics we're hoping to get around the 250 mark. Meanwhile poor old UTAS has lost their HPC (temporarily) due to flooding. It is a harsh irony that one of the reasons for its existence was to model extreme weather events.
On the RPG front tonight will witness an episode of Exalted, and I completed a write-up of the last session of this mythic Chinese story last night where the heroes made their way from the court of Wang Shenzhi to Nanping. On Sunday ran a session of Eclipse Phase where the Sentinels made their way to Illa na Gorra off the coast of Ibiza, avoiding such TITAN horrors as Creepers and Factals to find the stack of weapons-manufacturer Helga Busenberg (German speakers may snicker now) only to discover it was she who created said weapons in the first place. Apropos had a committee meeting that evening followed with a meeting today with the organiser of Arcanacon concerning the input of the RPG Review Cooperative for that Con next year.
People are probably aware of recent killings in Palestine which occurred simultaneously with the US moving its embassy to Jerusalem. The protests were part of an ongoing right-of-return campaign by Palestinians. It is appropriate to recall that the Gaza strip was captured by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War with Israel (5/6) and Egypt (1/6) ensuring border closures with Israel ensures a sea and air blockade. The population is not allowed to freely to leave or enter and allowed to freely import or export goods. It is a prison and given the population density (third highest in the world) it is accurate to call it a concentration camp, or even a ghetto. It makes a good example of the recent post on political partisanship. In encountering apologists for the Israeli regime of recent events, I have found that asking them whether their opinion would be the same if the situation was reversed to be quite revealing.
On the RPG front tonight will witness an episode of Exalted, and I completed a write-up of the last session of this mythic Chinese story last night where the heroes made their way from the court of Wang Shenzhi to Nanping. On Sunday ran a session of Eclipse Phase where the Sentinels made their way to Illa na Gorra off the coast of Ibiza, avoiding such TITAN horrors as Creepers and Factals to find the stack of weapons-manufacturer Helga Busenberg (German speakers may snicker now) only to discover it was she who created said weapons in the first place. Apropos had a committee meeting that evening followed with a meeting today with the organiser of Arcanacon concerning the input of the RPG Review Cooperative for that Con next year.
People are probably aware of recent killings in Palestine which occurred simultaneously with the US moving its embassy to Jerusalem. The protests were part of an ongoing right-of-return campaign by Palestinians. It is appropriate to recall that the Gaza strip was captured by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War with Israel (5/6) and Egypt (1/6) ensuring border closures with Israel ensures a sea and air blockade. The population is not allowed to freely to leave or enter and allowed to freely import or export goods. It is a prison and given the population density (third highest in the world) it is accurate to call it a concentration camp, or even a ghetto. It makes a good example of the recent post on political partisanship. In encountering apologists for the Israeli regime of recent events, I have found that asking them whether their opinion would be the same if the situation was reversed to be quite revealing.
