On 01/28/2015 02:00 PM, Gavin W. Burris wrote:
Researchers do not want to be sysadmins, and if they do, they aren't publishing.
This statement is so infuriatingly incorrect I'm embarrassed to even be responding to it.
You do remember this is the Beowulf list, originally comprised of researchers who decided to be their own sysadmins/hardware vendors/etc in order to get their research done, right?
Even in today's mainly post-big-iron age, there are plenty of systems-level CS researchers (like I was not more than 6 months back) who ran their own clusters simply to get their work done. No, I really don't feel like working with my IT staff every time I want to change the toolchain or recompile such-and-such magical cache replacement algorithm into this version of the kernel. Imagine that. I just want to do it.
I have no doubt there are tons of point-and-click researchers out there who don't want to be sysadmins. But making such broad strokes on this list is asking for flames.
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