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tcpipIt looks like I'm about to finish another 13-week MOOC, this time the macroeconomics course from UC Irvine, in one month, having powered my way through two week's worth in the past few days. Because this is what I do for fun, qute honestly. At least a fair bit of the time. And when I'm not learning, I'm teaching which often enough amounts to the same thing ("Lernen durch Lehren", as the Germans like to put it). Or, at least in my context, on-the-job learning becoming on-the-job practice, becoming on-the-job teaching. Which is an around-about way of saying that I have two workshop classes to conduct today and tomorrow; Parallel Programming (CPU-based), and GPGPU Programming (GPU based). It is also a gentle reminder that I should put my book with the snappy title, "Sequential and Parallel Programming in C and Fortran" on Smashwords. There's only so much content I can provide in two four-hour classes.
Much of the past several days have been spent getting content for the book chapter, "Processing Large and Complex Datasets for Maximum Throughput on HPC systems", which I am the lead author representing the University of Melbourne side of the equation, with some content coming through from co-authors at Universität Freiburg. At least some of the content from this chapter can be used in tomorrow's workshop (specifically the technological developments in HPC) and at least some of the content in the book chapter is coming from other presentations, the recent eResearchAustralasia conference in particular. I sometimes look with some terror at the 55MB of pure textfiles I have planned for content in future publications; that's around 100 books worth; I am never going to get that done, even at my rate of writing content (LJ/DW posts don't count, except for my tortured and not terribly interesting autobiography).
One thing I do plan on making happen this year, much later than originally, is a Cyberpunk conference, which must be held in 2020 for aesthetic reasons and must be subtitled "Year of the Stainless Steel Rat", also appropriately. Circumstances being what they are, there is nothing wrong with running it as a fully online conference as well. I have started getting speakers and a programme together for the day, so mark it down: Sunday, December 27, from 10:00 to 18:00 AEDST (a lazy Sunday after the Xmas events), with subsequent RPG events from 19:00 ASDST after that. The tentative programme includes sessions on hacking, technology, politics, culture, and, of course, cyberpunk gaming.
Much of the past several days have been spent getting content for the book chapter, "Processing Large and Complex Datasets for Maximum Throughput on HPC systems", which I am the lead author representing the University of Melbourne side of the equation, with some content coming through from co-authors at Universität Freiburg. At least some of the content from this chapter can be used in tomorrow's workshop (specifically the technological developments in HPC) and at least some of the content in the book chapter is coming from other presentations, the recent eResearchAustralasia conference in particular. I sometimes look with some terror at the 55MB of pure textfiles I have planned for content in future publications; that's around 100 books worth; I am never going to get that done, even at my rate of writing content (LJ/DW posts don't count, except for my tortured and not terribly interesting autobiography).
One thing I do plan on making happen this year, much later than originally, is a Cyberpunk conference, which must be held in 2020 for aesthetic reasons and must be subtitled "Year of the Stainless Steel Rat", also appropriately. Circumstances being what they are, there is nothing wrong with running it as a fully online conference as well. I have started getting speakers and a programme together for the day, so mark it down: Sunday, December 27, from 10:00 to 18:00 AEDST (a lazy Sunday after the Xmas events), with subsequent RPG events from 19:00 ASDST after that. The tentative programme includes sessions on hacking, technology, politics, culture, and, of course, cyberpunk gaming.
