🚀 go-pugleaf

Stephen Gregory (gregorse@tuns.ca) wrote:
: Marni Tuttle wrote:
: > 
: > Here are some of my concerns...
: > 
: > Owen Hertzman (hertzman@Atm.Dal.Ca) wrote:


: > : I have certain reservations about the merger process, especially
: > : regarding total computing related resource allocation.  However, I think
: > : those issues will be fought out by those mainly inovlved.
: > 
: >         Which is another problem I have... resource allocation is the least
: > of my worries, but your hope that those issues will be fought out by those
: > mainly involved seems, hmmm... VERY optomistic considering how we were
: > informed and asked to be involved in the process to date.
: > 

: I was thinking about computer resource allocation earlier today and it
: worried me. TUNS has close to 30 28.8 modems this is enough so that I
: don't wait forever to dial in. TUNS also has easy slip/ppp access. I
: don't believe DAL has either. (Although DAL does have slip/ppp you just
: have to pay for it right?) I would not like to lose the current level of
: service that exists at TUNS.


Modems? As far as resources are concerned, modems are not a major
concern.  They are by far the cheapest resources that a CS school
needs.  Dalhousie's MSCS department of which Computing Science is a
member holds many teaching and research computing machines.  As
far as anyone knows, these machines are _shared_ by the MSCS
department and deciding which actually should go with CS to wherever
it ended up going would be no easy task.  Computing resources that
MSCS has for teaching resources include: 

	UG.CS.DAL.CA  - A Sparc 20
	3 Sparc IPX workstations
	1 Sparc 2 workstation
	access to a Sparc 10 Multimedia machine 
	somewhere around 50 xterms used in b705 and in the cs lounge


	The departments research equipment is considerable and
includes _many_ workstations and powerfull Sparc Servers.  I am not
aware of the exact numbers - though I am sure somone reading this
would be.  

	In addition the department has an _excellent_  support
staff for our machines (David Trueman and Trent McDougal).  
All this equipment has been purchased jointly by the department
and any merger plans would have to adeqautley address how these would
be divided.   Saying that these "are details to be worked out at a
later date" - is not going to cut it.

	If anything this thread has made it clear that there
are a considerable number of details to be worked out.     

	It _would_ however be nice to hear from other people reading
these posts...... 


....James  


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: Stephen Gregory                                    aa614@chebucto.ns.ca
: Electrical Engineering, 3rd year                       gregorse@tuns.ca
: Technical University of Nova Scotia        Halifax, Nova Scotia, CANADA