On Aug 14, 2006, at 12:28 AM, Brian Dobbins wrote:
Echoing Mark's reply, it seems to me that a lot of the volume IS from
people who are in an academic environment and wrestle with the issues
therein. My two cents would be that I think the wide variety of
experience and ideas here only helps when it comes to getting good
pointers or solutions to a problem plaguing one of us in a University
setting.
Absolutely - there is a huge portion of this list that comes from an
academic IT background. That's why I figured this was a good place
to make some initial inquiries. :)
Are there problems so specific to the higher education realm
that you think they'd benefit from their own forum?
Not so much that would benefit from their own forum, but there are a
lot of issues that are not directly related to the construction and
technical operation of clusters, but rather more administrative/
organizational in nature.
Things like:
- integration of a cluster into a larger University IT infrastructure
(storage, authentication, policies, et. al.)
- funding models (central funds, grant based) both for equipment and
personnel.
- centralized research IT versus local departmental/school support.
- education and training
- deployment issues (who pays F&M?)
- sustainability and growth
Some of these topics have content that would be appropriate for this
list, some not-so-much. There are also some people I know that would
be interested in participating in the conversation, but not about
general Beowulfery.
So if it were a democratic process, I'd vote to keep it here, but if a
new list/site is created, I'll go wherever the information is.
I just wanted to try and avoid throwing a lot of off-topic posts onto
this list.
(How
many subscribers are on this list now anyways? The www.beowulf.org
website says, "Over 3,000 researchers, engineers, students, and
software
developers have participated in these online discussions since 1996."
but it doesn't say how many are subscribed now.)
That would be an interesting number to know.
Thanks for the feedback,
-bill
--
Bill Rankin, Ph.D.
Director, Cluster and Grid Technology Group
Center for Computational Science, Engineering and Medicine
Duke University
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