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strangedave visiting us from Perth, for the stated purpose of attending some Burning Man organising group. It just so correlated with a release of a new edition of RuneQuest by Chaosium. As we are both knowledgeable fans of said product we were able to go through with a critical eye with a certain speed and intensity; my dotted notes are on the RuneQuest rules mailing list; the short version is it's pretty big, very much in the style of the old RuneQuest2, incorporates personality features from the runes to the characters, and includes a fair amount of Pendragon (parental history, passions etc). I intend, of course, to do a more complete review in the near future for RPG Review.
In actual play it just so happened to be RuneQuest week at our regular Sunday gaming group, which involved raiding tombs, battling certain lizard-folk, discovering our original employer had come to the sticky end of a sorcerer, and facing complaints from landlords. Quite a lot packed in for a single session really. In addition, the day previous was our regular CheeseQuest with Damien and Jacqui B., where we played another session of Mice & Mystics finishing off the penultimate chapter with relative ease - one more to go and we've finished the game, which has taken us over a year.
A somewhat disappointing conclusion to the week was the realisation that our much-plagued GPGPU partition for Spartan would not going going to be ready for a Top500 test by the deadline on June 1st (even with Pacific Time taken into consideration). We still have what appears to be intranetwork issues; in aggregate we can be a fair result through individual racks, and obviously on single-nodes we can get excellent results. But the system as a whole shows very poor performance issues. Assuming we can get this resolved we can have another crack for the November list. It's just the nature of the beast; sometimes when you're a blade runner, you get cut. EDIT: Almost forgot, have wirtten a short piece on installation of MrTrix on HPC with EasyBuild in mind.
strangedave visiting us from Perth, for the stated purpose of attending some Burning Man organising group. It just so correlated with a release of a new edition of RuneQuest by Chaosium. As we are both knowledgeable fans of said product we were able to go through with a critical eye with a certain speed and intensity; my dotted notes are on the RuneQuest rules mailing list; the short version is it's pretty big, very much in the style of the old RuneQuest2, incorporates personality features from the runes to the characters, and includes a fair amount of Pendragon (parental history, passions etc). I intend, of course, to do a more complete review in the near future for RPG Review. In actual play it just so happened to be RuneQuest week at our regular Sunday gaming group, which involved raiding tombs, battling certain lizard-folk, discovering our original employer had come to the sticky end of a sorcerer, and facing complaints from landlords. Quite a lot packed in for a single session really. In addition, the day previous was our regular CheeseQuest with Damien and Jacqui B., where we played another session of Mice & Mystics finishing off the penultimate chapter with relative ease - one more to go and we've finished the game, which has taken us over a year.
A somewhat disappointing conclusion to the week was the realisation that our much-plagued GPGPU partition for Spartan would not going going to be ready for a Top500 test by the deadline on June 1st (even with Pacific Time taken into consideration). We still have what appears to be intranetwork issues; in aggregate we can be a fair result through individual racks, and obviously on single-nodes we can get excellent results. But the system as a whole shows very poor performance issues. Assuming we can get this resolved we can have another crack for the November list. It's just the nature of the beast; sometimes when you're a blade runner, you get cut. EDIT: Almost forgot, have wirtten a short piece on installation of MrTrix on HPC with EasyBuild in mind.
