I started work on the documentation of the packer.io tool and its usage. I also started packaging it up so it can be neatly put into a git repo, I believe there is a repo that has other similar code. I say enatly because it is amazing how you can quickly get a sea of files named "runtime1", "runtime1_final", "runtime1_final_final", haha. I also added 16.04 LTS support for VirtualBox VMs.
I had originaly planned on making a Centos 6 and 7 for the VMs but Ming, who is on the HPCC Platform team, advised that this was necessary. Ubuntu seems to win the hearts of ECL developers. I also started my preliminary work on using GPU with HPCC Systems and how it can be integrated into my work last year, which was CPU based distributed deep learning.