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That's hilarious. Isn't this the same "Berkeley" that runs a sustained 20 petaflop distributed supercomputer from freely-donated volunteer machines? https://en
by perihelions 2y ago
That's hilarious. Isn't this the same "Berkeley" that runs a sustained 20 petaflop distributed supercomputer from freely-donated volunteer machines?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Open_Infrastructure_for_Network_Computing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Open_Infrastructure_f... ("Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing")
They are Kropotkin when you are volunteering for them, and neutron-bomb Jack Welch when you expect something of them.
- _yb2s 2y agoThere is no "they" - academic research labs are funded by their own grants, and are pretty close to being separate companies that just rent space from the university. BOINC is funded by donations and grants from the NSF and NASA. Academic administration that makes decisions about things like e-mail account policies is an entirely different thing from research labs doing projects like BOINC, ultimately controlled by the state government- although it can and does choose to delegate some responsibilities to academic faculty.
- manav 2y agoTheir email systems are managed by Google Workspace.
- AnthonyMouse 2y agoThen the obvious solution is to instead have them managed by their CS department. And fire whoever previously thought it should be otherwise.
- hooverd 2y agoThey would probably crack down on storage more if they had to run their own storage arrays.
- AnthonyMouse 2y agoWhy? 5GB of storage is like five cents of storage.
- david38 2y agoYou can’t be serious? I can’t think of a bigger waste of time.
- AnthonyMouse 2y agoFor the people who write the SMTP RFCs and teach students how to implement them to have hands-on experience operating a mail system?
- hooverd 2y agoDistributed computing is a different beast than a storage service for students for stick all their pirated media on.