On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Joe Landman wrote:
Now that RGB has written a thesis on this ... :)
No, the thesis went to Bill offline. You guys just got the
synopsis...;-)
And I'm too tired/busy from my "vacating" to do a proper job, sorry...
Work starts in earnest next week, and a whole lot of it starts tomorrow.
rgb
Robert G. Brown wrote:
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Bill Rankin wrote:
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.
This is a key question (and answer). There are issues of critical mass
for a successful list to consider. There are also alternative formats
-- e.g. wiki instead of actual mailing list. Finally there are issues
of sponsorship and linkage -- it is easier to get to critical mass if
there is a mechanism other than google for feeding people and certain
threads of discussion over to the new venue. Possibilities include
crossconnecting/linking the new resource with an existing resource to
get some synergy, hijacking threads on the beowulf list that are
sufficiently "academic" that they are as noted slightly OT for what most
of the list membership cares to here (if there is any way to note that),
periodic advertisement on the beowulf list (in the form of gentle
invitation to move threads vs hijacking:-).
[disclaimer: Not officially associated with them, but they are great
people]
The good folks over at bioinformatics.org have a number of great lists
on there, and the director of the organization, a small non-profit (by
choice) entity, would probably help out if you felt you needed another
forum.
They have a bioclusters list there, as well as a biodevelopers, and a
few other good ones. Low traffic, etc. They are quite interested in
the edu side of things.
I personally wouldn't have a problem seeing that traffic here on
beowulf. Beowulfery is not just the technology, its the whole
kit-and-kiboodle.
--
Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/
Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305
Durham, N.C. 27708-0305
Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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