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Abstract for Aotearoa New Zealand Software Engineering Conference, September, 2026 The Spartan supercomputer started its life as a small, experimental, general-purpose High Performance Computer at the University of Melbourne, facing significant financial…

Recently, I passed a ten-year streak of doing Duolingo every day.

Given a DNA or protein sequence, Maximum-Likelihood (ML) Phylogenetics searches for an evolutionary tree that would most probably have produced the observed sequences.

Recently, I had noticed that when I add an attachment (e.g. to email, via a web browser), GNOME's GTK file picker was only providing a list from recently opened items.

Wuxi is home to China's National Supercomputing Centre and the Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer.

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to visit Guizhou, China's National Big Data Comprehensive Pilot Zone.

This presentation covers the science of Earth's "energy budget" of heat inputs and losses, and describes the overall climate system.

With at least three disciplines of interest - energy and climatology, public economics, and high-performance computing - there is the issue of whether current trends in artificial intelligence are environmentally sustainable.

Environment Modules allow users to dynamically modify the $PATHs in their shell environment.

LAME (recursive acronym Lame ain't an MP3 encoder) has been an exceptional application for creating MP3 audio files from other formats (e.g., WAV, FLAC, MPEG-1, MPEG-2) or even for re-encoding existing MP3 files.