I fully agree. I'm the admin on a similar sized cluster (although our interconnects are much faster) that sees only about 50% utilization by the University. The rest of the time is lent out to other Universities without such a resource or need a place to run unfunded projects.
I'd be amazed that such a resource would ever be allowed to be "played" on. Our up time is critical since many jobs take weeks sometimes months to run. Every effort is made to make the system rock solid and divide up the resources fairly.
I suspect the info is coming from the NASA reports we pilots fill out when there is a near-collision or runway incursion which when filed guarantees we won't be subject to any legal action from the FAA. Because of that protection they probably can only release the statistics and no more info than that. The theory is that if pilots and controllers report these incidents as much as possible, more can be done to make sure they don't happen in the future. Otherwise everyone would be worried about possible suspension of their license and wouldn't tell anyone about it.
How about picking an OSS project and contributing. This would give some hands on experience coding and introduce them to OSS.
If it is a 3 credit class, it might be stretch to only talk about the philosophy of OSS. Some practical experience will keep the students interested and maybe recruit some new programmers.
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I fully agree. I'm the admin on a similar sized cluster (although our interconnects are much faster) that sees only about 50% utilization by the University. The rest of the time is lent out to other Universities without such a resource or need a place to run unfunded projects. I'd be amazed that such a resource would ever be allowed to be "played" on. Our up time is critical since many jobs take weeks sometimes months to run. Every effort is made to make the system rock solid and divide up the resources fairly.
I suspect the info is coming from the NASA reports we pilots fill out when there is a near-collision or runway incursion which when filed guarantees we won't be subject to any legal action from the FAA. Because of that protection they probably can only release the statistics and no more info than that. The theory is that if pilots and controllers report these incidents as much as possible, more can be done to make sure they don't happen in the future. Otherwise everyone would be worried about possible suspension of their license and wouldn't tell anyone about it.
How about picking an OSS project and contributing. This would give some hands on experience coding and introduce them to OSS. If it is a 3 credit class, it might be stretch to only talk about the philosophy of OSS. Some practical experience will keep the students interested and maybe recruit some new programmers.