On 04/18/2013 12:57 PM, Nicholas M Glykos wrote: >> Please describe what the grad student who pioneers new tech for X-ray >> generators should do, particularly if they are trying to develop new safety >> interlocks. > They work on their supervisor's own X-ray generator at the basement of > their department under strict supervision. And not at a synchrotron site > with 40 people doing their own experiments. >
As someone who got a full year+ dose of radiation in a few seconds courtesy of an ... er ... less careful? ... graduate student who overrode some of the interlocks to test the accelerator ... I've got some ... er ... internal light? ... to spread on this (humor intended) Lets say ... ah ... Safety is very important. Pretending it isn't, or saying "bad things can't happen to me because I is smart" isn't quite a safe strategy ... for computing, for x-ray interlocks, for driving on a highway ... >> There needs to be, at the very least, a testbed in universities where >> students >> can receive and be able to use root on a limited set of machines. > Fully agree. Students should be able to play and break things, but with > their group's toy cluster, and not the central cluster of their > university. > Agree. And they can irradiate themselves if they want to. > > -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics, Inc. email: land...@scalableinformatics.com web : http://scalableinformatics.com http://scalableinformatics.com/siflash phone: +1 734 786 8423 x121 fax : +1 866 888 3112 cell : +1 734 612 4615 _______________________________________________ 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
