Hello, is there a demand or some interest of individuals or research groups on this list to have their compute resources (partially) shared? I am asking since I am contributing to an EU project on Grid Computing that has Debian packages at least close to being usable (see www.knowarc.eu). For an instant picture of what a grid is, have a quick look at the Grid Monitor at http://www.NorduGrid.org/monitor . It shows a couple of sites across Northern Europe and the number of CPUs that these offer to the community. This is mostly High Energy Physics, but Astronomy and Bioinformatics is on the rise.
Some work, also of mine, admittedly, is still needed on the Debianisation front before we can announce the packages at large. There are a few users of Debian on the project already, but none of them are close to bioinformatics by heart. So, I am counting on you here. What I would like to prepare with those of you who share my interest is an agreement * on databases that are installed, indexed, * Debian packages of ours that are installed and ... * don't know yet, this depends on your feedback With some homogeneous setup, in which Debian is barely beatable, we can then run our compute tasks on more machines than we have already available locally and possibly save some work on local maintenance of resources that are used only at rare occasions. Please drop me and/or the list an email if you are interested and I'll talk you through to get your site/machine up. Best regards, Steffen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]