Python Workshop et al, Researcher Presentation and Feedback

Fri, 30 Sep 2022 07:08:29 GMT

On rare occasions, I will write about my work week and this is one of those times. As the previous installment revealed, this week I conducted three training workshops, "Introduction to Linux and HPC", "Advanced Linux and Shell Scripting for HPC", and "Parallel and High Performance Python". All of this was conducted whilst fighting off an annoying chest-and-head cold. As a result, I don't think I delivered at 100% but fortunately, the researchers seemed to be satisfied with the delivery and content. The Python course was a new workshop and I feel that it will have several more iterations before it is up to the standard I want, but even at this stage, there is a temptation to do a follow-up workshop that's even more advanced. There is much that I can write about this often slow and annoying (but readable and popular) language, but as a taste of things to come I have written a short article entitled "Compiling Your Python", where I take up a matter that I've been meaning to write about for quite a while.

Yesterday, I tried my best to take a day of sick leave to alleviate this cold but alas, I remembered almost at the last minute that I was chairing a researcher presentation, so at the last minute managed to get myself together. The presentation itself, by one Professor Guillermo Narsilio was excellent, as they all are. This one was about the development of various geothermal technologies, their capacity to mitigate climate change, their role in certain large infrastructure projects, and the modelling they did using the Spartan supercomputer and the University of Melbourne/NeCTAR Research Cloud. Finally, to provide a capstone to the week I helped out a researcher who was conducting a looped Bayesian phylogenetic and phylodynamic data integration for quality control but was having some leading character issues; the recommended solution of using a singleton scheduler directive to manage the outputs - and it worked! "Thanks for your advice too, Lev. You saved my PhD chapter!", Now that's the sort of feedback that gets me out of bed in the morning.

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