I've been in IT for a while now and there's nothing better for morale than having the chance to play around with leading edge technology.
Also, size up your employee. They all have strenght and weaknesses. Assigned them long term project that involve new technology in there field of expertise to keep them busy. There's nothing worse than to be waiting for a call while doing ziltch.
Upgrade there machine. Most geek in IT loves to have the latest and greatest HW. Dual monitor might be a start;-)
Most of all, pick up the blame for anything your team does. If anything goes wrong, you and nobody else is repsonsible for it. That will reinforce you as a leader. Also, make sure there is no competition between your guys.
In this economic climate, you might want to reassure them that their jobs are safe. Make sure they know what is coming up down the road.
You might also want to write a monthly reports that would be sent to the whole compagny, telling everyone what good thing came out from your department. People in IT never get the recognition that they deserve. You only see them when thing goes wrong. Make sure everyone knows that they bring value to the compagny.
I could probably go on for hours, but you get the idea.
Cheers,
Seb PS: English is a second language, so I appologize in advance to all you grammar freek out there.:-)
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I've been in IT for a while now and there's nothing better for morale than having the chance to play around with leading edge technology.
;-)
:-)
Also, size up your employee. They all have strenght and weaknesses. Assigned them long term project that involve new technology in there field of expertise to keep them busy. There's nothing worse than to be waiting for a call while doing ziltch.
Upgrade there machine. Most geek in IT loves to have the latest and greatest HW. Dual monitor might be a start
Most of all, pick up the blame for anything your team does. If anything goes wrong, you and nobody else is repsonsible for it. That will reinforce you as a leader. Also, make sure there is no competition between your guys.
In this economic climate, you might want to reassure them that their jobs are safe. Make sure they know what is coming up down the road.
You might also want to write a monthly reports that would be sent to the whole compagny, telling everyone what good thing came out from your department. People in IT never get the recognition that they deserve. You only see them when thing goes wrong. Make sure everyone knows that they bring value to the compagny.
I could probably go on for hours, but you get the idea.
Cheers,
Seb
PS: English is a second language, so I appologize in advance to all you grammar freek out there.
Tryed it.
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:-)
For a single frame calculation, you don't see much improvment if you go with more than 4 cpus. over 12, your taking more time as you had cpus.
You also need to have a cluster that can share sockets connections between the host, otherwise, the job will most likely stay on the initator node.
I was investigating this avenue because of the cost of licenses. The advantage of a cluster is obviously to save on licenses.
I used openmosix and found that it was not stable enough to be put into production.
But I haven't given up on the idea
Seb
How about installing a NFS client on your windows workstation and make yourself a NFS file server with a linux 2.6.x kernel?
Gigabit ethernet card are cheap these days and you can get yourself a nice SATA raid that will be able to handle your huge DV files.
Seb
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Yes, I made good overtime that year :-)