José Matos (jamatos@fc.up.pt) said:
On Monday 28 May 2007 05:41:04 Bill Nottingham wrote:
So, my reading of this is 'larger phys/chem institutions are crazy and don't understand sane systems management'. Am I reading this wrong?
Don't downplay their efforts, most of their problems run for months and they are very carefull about the results, after all is their reputation that is at stake. :-)
Yes, but... describing a situation where results are run on whatever machine of whatever OS, with whatever random libs happen to be in /usr/local? Doesnt sound like an environment that intends to be replicable, or easily managed. What happens when a disk goes out? Or someone replaces one of those libraries?
Bill