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strong opposition in French CS academia

On: French Voting Machines a "Catastrophe"

Before elections, there was quite a strong movement against the electronic voting in France among CS academic community. See the webpage of this guy: http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~dicosmo/E-Vote/ Sadly, the French love for automatization won again this time.

Right, this is not a grid!

On: Year of the Mainframe? Not Quite, Say Linux Grids

Nowadays, in the CS research community, the most widely used definition of a grid is A Three Point Checklist by Ian Foster, stating that:

1. There's no central control over resources.
2. System uses open standards.
3. System provides non-trivial quality of service.

Here, at least the first point is not fulfilled. So yes, they've built a cluster. A cluster like hundreds of others, used since the early 90s. It's 2007, isn't it? I'm impressed!