From LCA2010

BOF for people interested in CRIs, CSIRO, Universties or similar research establishments

This will just be an informal discussion for issues that affect these sorts of establishments especially with relationship to FLOSS and Linux.

Please bring along any ideas for discussion.

Participants

Round the room intros from:

• Zane (crop + food) nz food composition database , gov
• John (CSIRO) adv computing CFD simulations etc
• Ben (Avondale college) Newcastle
• Sara (CSIRO) software for large networks about to change lab
• Pete (Monash Melboune) UCSD programming
• Claudine (Uni Melb) - database of convicts in tasmania social science, db drupal
• Matt CSIRO - earth science + resource eng. - electronics
• Synergy - software virtual KVM
• Vince CSIRO - Aust telescope national facility
• Daniel CSIRO -
• Mark Griffon uni

Topics covered

• Standard operating environments
• CSIRO sites
• Synergy - software virtual KVM
• SKA
• top500 / green 500
• LFNs bandwidth delay product