On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Chris Samuel <chris@csamuel.org> wrote:
On 22/12/10 12:39, Adam Bolte wrote:
I found this statement surprising. I studied at a Melbourne university, and when I spoke to lecturers of FOSS, one lecturer even went so far as to call those people "crazy.. and will do themselves out of a job". The IT department was run almost exclusively by Solaris.
FWIW the HPC[0] systems at the University of Melbourne are almost entirely Linux based, with the only exception I'm aware of being the Compute Node Kernel (CNK) in our BlueGene/P at VLSCI (which is released [1] under the IBM CPL[2], OSI approved but not GPL compatible).
[0] - High Performance Computing [1] - http://wiki.bg.anl-external.org/index.php/Cnk [2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Public_License
From an academic research perspective - a good thing about the AuScope
Yes and where I currently work at VPAC, we still run most of the systems using FOSS software, largely through the work of people like Chris before he moved to Melb U ;) project I worked on was the government funding agreement did state explicitly that by default, new software produced should be under an open source licence. I guess this fits in well with the idea of a govt-research project producing things that enable society and the economy as a whole. Another good reason one of the academics I worked with was keen on open source is it means their research platform is 'portable' in case they move Universities in the future. -- Pat.
cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC
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