"Peter St. John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 4. Physicist who builds his own damn Supercomputer agonizes for days over > the emergency shut off switch wiring, because he can, he teaches > electricity; but he could just walk one hundred yards down Science Drive and > get an EE grad student to do it for him.
The problem with the Emergency Stop switch is not designing or building the electrical wiring to implement it, it's interpreting the electrical code to determine if one is required. Parts of the code were apparently written by a Zen master so that the answer to what seems like a straighforward question "do we need an Emergency Stop switch?" depends on the answer to "is this room full of machines a machine room"? The latter is apparently an electrical code koan, as only the enlightened can divine the answer. And maybe not even then - there seems to be room for considerable debate on the issue. Indeed, the answer may depend not so much on what the room holds, but rather on how it was wired, as certain sections of the code may be "relaxed" in machine room construction. Suffice it to say that a definitive "required" or "not required" has not yet been obtained from the folks in charge of the room's construction. Regards, David Mathog [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
