[Beowulf] RE: MS Cray

[Naveed Near-Ansari]

On Sep 17, 2008, at 11:39 AM, Lux, James P wrote:
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> A big disadvantage of in-house is that it leads to an inventory of  
> ancient gear that becomes hard to maintain, and balkanized ownership  
> (we bought that for Project X, and though Project X is long gone,  
> the former staff of Project X still owns it). A big advantage of in- 
> house is that you can walk across the street and pick up an  
> oscilloscope.
>
> Jim

We had some issues with these NASA owned machines in the previous  
department i worked for. Because of arcane rules of ownership and what  
could be done with these machines, they sat in a closet for years  
(they may still be there) because noone knew what could be legally  
done with these extrememly outdated and useless machines.

Naveed