HPC Education, Personal Developments

[tcpip]

Two items of note regarding HPC Education for me over the past few days; the first is that I will be a speaker at the International HPC Certification Forum's Toward a Globally Acknowledged and Free HPC Certification virtual workshop, on Training and Curriculum Development for International HPC Certification, which points out that examinable content is very similar to curriculum development. The second item was continuing development in MHEd at Otago University where I received quite a good grade for my essay on Students-As-Partners for High Performance Computing in New Zealand, which essentially pointed out there was a long way to go for teaching HPC in higher education in New Zealand, let alone having a Students As Partners project. Nevertheless, drawing upon experiences from the VPAC summer school, SaP programmes could provide a transitional approach from "student" to "professional".

In other news, I am still working through my long list of RPG sales for Medicines sans Frontiers - I'm close to $6K AUD now. Also, still continuing my diet and exercise regime. Further, I had my second visit to the Red Cross yesterday, which looks is certainly becoming just one of those things I do. So there's a commitment for life, sealed in blood (or plasma). In less sanguine matters, I have a thoroughly annoying (annoying enough to mention) ear blockage for the better part of a week, carbamide peroxide solution helping somewhat, a recently purchase ear syringe being even better soon. Finally, because it's third-quarter isolation where things get weird (the psychology of mass isolation is quite fascinating), I've decided to give myself a mohawk - the first I've had for over 25 years. I might be an old man now, but I'm still a young cyberpunk at heart.

Comments

[vatine]

I would've thought that a a young cyberpunk at heart, you were more in the line for a sexy implant, so you could 'trode your deck with the slickest feedback, smoothly making runs at those massive cores, waiting just over the horizon, then coming back, hands full of grimy secrets you can then make some money, for the boosters you need for the next run?

[tcpip]

Hey, I work in supercomputing, isn't that a good enough start? :p

[vatine]

Eh.

It doesn't have the aesthetics, you know. "Working in academic super-computing" is pretty much "working for the man".

It does beat slinking from squat to squat, carrying one's monomol knife, and tricked-out Ono-Sendai in a custom-paint Hello Kitty kitbag, though.

[tcpip]

> "Working in academic super-computing" is pretty much "working for the man".

True that.

I should use it just for my cover.

(And maybe I already do...)