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@emmadavidson I'm kinda jealous! 😊
NCI and the Pawsey Centre in Perth are amazing facilities that are doing the behind-the-scenes number crunching on some incredible research projects.
@emmadavidson what's running on those fancy computers...Excel?
@schtaks excel is inefficient enough that you probably do need a supercomputer to accurately calculate anything
@emmadavidson I went of a tour of the facilities at [redacted] and we were not allowed to take photos of any of the flashing lights, machines or anything 😞
@fraser I was specifically told I was allowed to take photos because there were no national security issues in what we were looking at. Otherwise, my phone would have stayed in my pocket.
@emmadavidson oh I miss being a literal computer toucher.
@emmadavidson That GIF is awesome. Thank you.
@emmadavidson Can it run Crysis?
@emmadavidson Fond memories of begging for higher cluster quotas on some of those machines. And then eventually using Nectar with OpenStack when it was added as a node using other machines.
@emmadavidson lovely beautiful racks, clean pipes, etc.
@emmadavidson i thought there was a subReddit for rack porn. I just went to look for it. Do not search for "rack porn" on your work computer.
@emmadavidson I do admire neatly labelled, colour-coded cables. I admire them even more if they've been there for a few years and no one's had a Friday arvo "but I've only got yellow cables, it'll do" moment.
@quokka1 these ones have mostly been there for a few years!
@emmadavidson So many cable ties!
@troberts @emmadavidson zooms in, phew, no they’re sensible people and have used Velcro strips.
Cable ties in computing should be banned.
@troberts ikr? Can they please come to my house and Marie Kondo our cables please?
@emmadavidson @troberts I can put you in touch with a local company that will do so for moneys...
@emmadavidson @troberts ahhh this lil Velcro things are boss for that
Daniel, who was telling us what all this beautiful infrastructure is and what it can do, also told us about all the things that have been done to reduce energy use and make it all more efficient.
@emmadavidson you can see some of my terabytes there 😁
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