A day of mixed fortunes
Sep. 16th, 2009 09:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylI've had a distinctly mixed day. After an initial panic triggered by my almost chance discovery that I'd forgotten to send my research diary to my tutor for signing ahead of submitting my thesis, I had to rush down to the Post Office first thing to make sure that the stupid thing went off in time.
Having done that, I rushed to get in to work in time for my morning meeting. Fortunately, I bumped into one of my colleagues on the way and we were able to brain storm some new scheduling ideas on the way in. Our final master plan involved coming up with a way to partition the work up into user-defined priority levels and then to use peer pressure to ensure that people didn't hog the highest priority band.
My meeting, which I managed to make with time to spare, was also unexpected productive. We were got through a whole load of interesting stuff and someone from management passed on Official Thanks for the success of the HPC upgrade project. They noted that ECMWF had yet to complete their upgrade, despite having a year's head start and 5+ years of experience running their production codes on IBM hardware, and there were general feelings of smugness and self-congratulation all round.
After a brief break for coffee, in which Sartre was discussed, I tested out a disc replacement procedure, debugged a network problem, sorted out some festing problems, did some paperwork, caught the bus into town, went for a swim, came home, loaded back up with carbs and listened to Die schöne Müllerin.
On balance, I think the good outweighed the bad.
Having done that, I rushed to get in to work in time for my morning meeting. Fortunately, I bumped into one of my colleagues on the way and we were able to brain storm some new scheduling ideas on the way in. Our final master plan involved coming up with a way to partition the work up into user-defined priority levels and then to use peer pressure to ensure that people didn't hog the highest priority band.
My meeting, which I managed to make with time to spare, was also unexpected productive. We were got through a whole load of interesting stuff and someone from management passed on Official Thanks for the success of the HPC upgrade project. They noted that ECMWF had yet to complete their upgrade, despite having a year's head start and 5+ years of experience running their production codes on IBM hardware, and there were general feelings of smugness and self-congratulation all round.
After a brief break for coffee, in which Sartre was discussed, I tested out a disc replacement procedure, debugged a network problem, sorted out some festing problems, did some paperwork, caught the bus into town, went for a swim, came home, loaded back up with carbs and listened to Die schöne Müllerin.
On balance, I think the good outweighed the bad.
