IntegrationMonkey

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Stack/Shift\/k8/HPC/Ceph/Infrastructure (IT+social)/networking/sailing/cats. Systems wrangler. Be excellent to each other

panorama of IBM's roof terrace in London with visitors talking, eating, and, well, playing croquet. I'm starting to think I'm working for the wrong people.
Power usage graph from home assistant of my freezer showing it normally pulsing power at around 60 watts over a few days, and then the pulses getting longer and taller until it switches to continuous use at around 80 watts, spiking to over 200.
Home assistant power dashboard showing the current usage meter at 17.984 kW
Merison lecture theatre
Screen shot of the top500 list showing the Hartree Centre's new supercomputer, Mary Coombs, at 62 with 99,456 cores and a peak performance of 31.18 Petaflops
Empty carpark except for my car.
Long(ish) exposure Photo of train tracks whizzing by
Screenshot of a green terminal window split in two. The top pane shows Nvidia GPU utilisation stats for four a100s, the bottom pane shows the deepseek large language model answering 'why the sky is blue?'
Screenshot of Google maps' end of navigation screen.
Liverpool docks at dusk. The sky is cloudless shading from light blue to almost black at the top. Jupiter visible in the sky. Lights reflect off the water.
Thermal image of a cat looking at the camera. The visible image is a slightly visible overlay.
A bad photo of the 4 piece band with audience heads silhouetted in the foreground.
Cropped Screenshot of the OpenShift telemetry screen
Cropped photo of an otter at Martin Mere
A server rack with 8 2u servers at the bottom, 3 400Gig switches and a 1gig switch in the middle, and 4 servers at the top. There are lots of cables.
OpenShift dashboard with lots of items showing as not ready
View from Penny Lane railway bridge looking south west from the centre of two pairs of rail tracks. Electrification gantries down the middle. Early 1900 Victorian terraces to the left. After dusk with a clear sky, -3C with snow on the ground.
Sunset over the mersey from down at the end of Liverpool Sailing Club's jetty
Photo looking over Sefton Park boating lake. Winter mist hangs over the lake with broken cloud and blue sky above.
Cat on a blanket. Cat is showing unhappy body language as it knows it is going into its cat carrier soon for the trip home.
Photo looking east along Nefyn pier. Light green stormy sea with wind driven spray. Wet picnic benches and commercial fishing gear are sheltered behind the pier wall. A small blue commercial fishing boat is moored to the right, bow on to us.
Pwllheli beach into the dusk sun. Large broken clouds with hints of golden glow. One person tiny in the distance. Sea is calm to the left, dunes to the right.
Sunset through trees in sefton park, liverpool
A snuggly cat squeezing me out of my own chair
Ipv6 ping to Google london showing RTT varying from 113ms to over 1 second.
A selfie of 7 Hartree geeks in front of a replica? Mastodon fossilized jaw, at Atlanta's aquarium.
Giant aquarium window, 0.6m thick showing a school of tuna and a 4m whale shark. Some people in silhouette in the foreground for scale
Square of burnished copper approx 3cm per side with a faint AMD corporate logo laser etched into it. It is balanced on two fingers with a broken effect bluring the carpet behind.
Jimmy eats world on stage. Epic lighting.
Some very clever person giving a presentation on quantum error mitigation/correction on a huge stage
Visualisation of a crystal lattice simulated at the atomic level. It is running on a TV against a rough stone wall with vertical parallel grooves cut into it
Photo of a research poster titled "evolving a multi-population evolutionary-QAOA on distributed QPUs" whatever that means!
Conference hall full of people, the large on-stage screen showing the sc24 logo on its sunset orange background
Screenshot of the Garmin Connect app showing a graph of steps taken throughout the day totalling 19711
UKRI STFC Exhibitor booth at sc24
Wide photo inside a convention centre, people descending and escalator
Sunset at Atlanta conference centre
Hotel room with 2 double beds
Atlanta skyline from a landing plane
Manchester airport