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This has been a week of eating out (Wednesday excluded), with some excellent social gatherings, gaming, and meetings. Sunday started with a presentation at the Philosophy Forum on 'Star Wars' and The Universe as an Energy Force: An Ontological Claim. This followed with a session of Space 1889 which involved protecting a Venusian native village from German imperialists (as opposed to our British imperialists) with the aid of a Maxim machine gun. As Hilaire Belloc wrote: Whatever happens, we have got / The Maxim gun, and they have not.. Afterwards had dinner at old favourite, Iliana's in Elwood. On Monday night had dinner with Richard OB., the most expecting Jade F., Denny C., and of course ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
caseopaya. Rich's expertise on history and politics was certainly a highlight of conversation in the evening, some of which is collected for prosperity's sake.
Tuesday night was Linux User's of Victoria with excellent talks by Russell Coker on OpenSSL and Heartbleed (summary available) followed by Sean Crosby, on the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid which was followed by the enormous by delectable food and conversation of Maria's. Thursday night was another session of Masks of Nyarlathotep with the fine food from Thai Terrace. Tonight will be catching up Brendan E., his parents who are visiting from Perth with their awesom travel bus, and dining at Punjabi Cafe in Collingwood.
Have had a couple of good items of news work-wise this week. The first is organising an OpenMPI Hackathon where researchers will be able to bring out their serial code and we'll do our best to help them make it parallel code. This follows a group of researchers petitioning for more classes on the subject. The other is a Graduate Certificate course proposal for high performance computing that I wrote a short summary for about a month ago. It was intended for local universities to consider (e.g., RMIT, University of Melbourne), but I've also been informed that interstate universities, CSIRO, and the National Computational Infrastructure have also made extremely positive remarks towards the paper as well. Such acknowledgements does chip away at any tendencies towards imposter syndrome.
caseopaya. Rich's expertise on history and politics was certainly a highlight of conversation in the evening, some of which is collected for prosperity's sake. Tuesday night was Linux User's of Victoria with excellent talks by Russell Coker on OpenSSL and Heartbleed (summary available) followed by Sean Crosby, on the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid which was followed by the enormous by delectable food and conversation of Maria's. Thursday night was another session of Masks of Nyarlathotep with the fine food from Thai Terrace. Tonight will be catching up Brendan E., his parents who are visiting from Perth with their awesom travel bus, and dining at Punjabi Cafe in Collingwood.
Have had a couple of good items of news work-wise this week. The first is organising an OpenMPI Hackathon where researchers will be able to bring out their serial code and we'll do our best to help them make it parallel code. This follows a group of researchers petitioning for more classes on the subject. The other is a Graduate Certificate course proposal for high performance computing that I wrote a short summary for about a month ago. It was intended for local universities to consider (e.g., RMIT, University of Melbourne), but I've also been informed that interstate universities, CSIRO, and the National Computational Infrastructure have also made extremely positive remarks towards the paper as well. Such acknowledgements does chip away at any tendencies towards imposter syndrome.
