[sc] Jodrell bank

[Robert Marshall]

On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Robert Marshall wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Richard Smedley wrote:
> 
>> Hello there,
>> 
>> Does anyone know anything about Jodrell Bank
>> and *nix usage?
>> 
>> (I know they've recently got a 182 processor Beowulf cluster,
>> but haven't found out more).
>> 
> 
> Seems to be a long turnaround here....  My contact has eventually
> arrived back in Macc - was on holiday in France and had a car
> accident, I have the name and email for the Linux contact at Jodrell
> and am awaiting a response.
> 
> Unfortunately he seems to be away at the moment :-(
> 

Spoke too soon(!), unless after my contact he's subscribed to this
list and was reminded

Anthony Holloway writes:

> Yes we do use linux here, about half of our machines run it. As you
> mentioned we recently won a grant to build a 'beowulf' style
> cluster, though with much higher packing density and high
> performance networking than an off the shelf system.
> 
> I assume your request was for a speaker at one of your meetings, in
> which case what dates are you looking to fill?

Meetings(!?) looks like a good excuse!

Robert
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