As you may (or may not have
) noticed, I've kinda kept a low profile the last few days. Between the problems with Theevildepartmentmanagerwhoreallyneedstohavehisbrakesfixedsothatherunsintoatrain and "real" work to do, plus the depression that set in when I realized that the Farm might be going away, I haven't had the heart/time to hang out here. 
However, as my subject said, things are looking better.
I've talked to the Network Admin and our boss individually, explaining the whole distributed computing model and the benefits that can come from it. To our boss, I basically presented it as a way to "give back to the community, in that the things learned from this DC project, which is sponsored by UCal Berkeley and has participants like IBM, Intel, Microsoft, HP and Compaq, can be applied to other projects that search for cures for cancer, anthrax, etc." (Pretty good argument, I must say!
) I also stressed that although the CPU utilization shows 100%, it is taking spare cycles, rather than robbing power for other programs. Plus, I told him that the majority of machines would only be running it from 7:30 PM - 7:00 AM. He seemed to think that it was not going to be a problem, and said that the Network Admin and I can get together and talk to him about it.
Let's keep our fingers crossed. I don't think the meeting will be taking place soon, due to a huge PeopleSoft implementation we're doing at the moment (man, I'd love to get my hands on the servers we just installed in a big ol' nasty cluster :Q
), but things are definitely looking better.
Now get back to racing!
However, as my subject said, things are looking better.
Let's keep our fingers crossed. I don't think the meeting will be taking place soon, due to a huge PeopleSoft implementation we're doing at the moment (man, I'd love to get my hands on the servers we just installed in a big ol' nasty cluster :Q
Now get back to racing!