> "Robert G. Brown" <r...@phy.duke.edu> wrote: > Often, but not always, housing, cooling, powering, and even managing > the > hardware is "free" to the researcher, absorbed into the ongoing costs > of > the server room and management staff already needed to run the > department LAN and servers.
Not always indeed. My little machine room houses a half dozen machines from other biology division people, and they are not charged to keep them there. However, putting a computer in the central campus machine rooms is not free. And new computer rooms, at least those of any size, do not get free power. After geology put in this monster: http://www.gps.caltech.edu/uploads/Image/Facilities/Beowulf.jpg the administration decided that when a computer room pretty much needs its own substation, it is well beyond the incidental overhead costs they are willing to pick up for average research labs. Along similar lines, I would guess that SLAC has to pay for its own power, rather than Stanford covering it out of overhead. Regards, David Mathog mat...@caltech.edu Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
