[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Tashi Hi,
I've read the messages from Henning and William, and I'd like to address some of the concerns voiced by them. I'm Michael Stroucken, and I'm a senior systems programmer at CMU. That means I am staff, and my interests in the Tashi project are not driven by an interest to generate research from the project (which is a plus of course). One of my tasks here is providing computing facilities to students, researchers and affiliates within the Parallel Data Laboratory. One of the facilities is a machine room designed from the bottom up to allow research on data center operations - the Data Center Observatory mentioned in the proposal. When I was offered the opportunity to be part of this project, I gladly joined up because I'm feeling the pain of needing a means of fairly and equitably providing for the computing demands of our students, yet having average utilisation levels be rather low at the same time people are desperate for machines. I have not been assigned to any part of this project as an employee of the university, and I am participating out of personal interest. I believe the project can improve services not just at our data centers, but at data centers in general. While this project is likely to result in research publications, at the end of the day my rooms are still going to be there. For me, the fruits of the project will be a real asset in a production environment, benefitting from continued input and improvement. I believe that other adopters in industry or academia will regard it as such too. Finally, as for the organisational vs. individual aspect, the project has large organisations behind it which provide an environment of communication and cooperation that would be difficult to replicate if we were just a few people at non-related and non-cooperating sites. I am aware that our responsibility towards an Apache project is as individuals, but I hope we can convince you that our corporate backing will be beneficial for the project. Greetings, Michael. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
