AAROC Operations ROD Accounting CODE-RADE LibSVM HTK Performance Study Novel jobs Messaging Metatadata registration Data Management Compute performance Reproducible science Sci-GaIA Web forum Winter School THOR What’s on my plate AAROC Ops CODE-RADE / AfricaGrid User Support SciGaIA General research Meraka / SANREN Footnotes Here is a brief summary of the things I’ve been working on in the 16th week of 2016. AAROC Operations A summary of the status of the sites can be seen below. For more details, see ARGO. Weekly status summary of the Africa-Arabia Regional Operations Centre. An up and down week on the operations side of...…

Here is a brief summary of the things I’ve been working on in the 16th week of 2016. AAROC Most of the core services which power the ROC are hosted in the C4 cluster in the CSIR and managed by an OpenNebula cloud manager. There was a failure of the storage backend of the virtual machines, as well as a general misconfiguration of some of the VMS, which saw a lot of the important services go down. Debugging the issue took quite a few days prior to this week, but eventually this week they were brought back up. The Nagios...…

TL;DR - Can we really get the bots to help us in an online school, or are we just going to create more work for ourselves ? We are facing a small dilemma in the development of a short technology-heavy course which we are going to run online for the Sci-GaIA project winter school which starts on the 1st of April. The dilemma goes to the heart of why there is so much inertia in our methods - whether those be training, writing documentation, or actually designing new services and tools - whilst we on the other hand continually strive...…

If you it, you should put a DOI on it Some time ago, during a workshop in Nairobi looking at the discoverability of scholarly communication in Africa, I made this silly meme : I was certainly not the only one to have made that tenuous connection between Beyonce. Just to support the thesis that all good points can be made with judicious application of musical references1, this happened a few days ago : pic.twitter.com/fmzNqnDB57— Shit Academics Say (@AcademicsSay) February 8, 2016 Now, a “Citation” and a “DOI” are not the same thing, but they depend on each other: you can’t...…

It’s Friday, the second week of work is gone in 2016. An enjoyably cold, windy week, during which I finished season 1 of Serial1, and caught up on Season 2. This week David Bowie and then Alan Rickman passed away. They were giants, yes, but I can’t say I wept for them. Now, when Nick Cave or Gill Scott Heron goes, I will indeed feel like a part of me has been taken away. A tiny, tiny part - their music will live of course. I did get curious and listened to Black Star quite a bit, and I regret...…