Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 23:45, Rick Bilonick wrote:Because there is very little space available in the department. I am requesting a project office outside the data center. I had done this before when I told them I need space for the additional computer equipment that I was buying. They ended up giving me more space but still in the data center. I thought all my problems were solved until we were setting up the system (putting it together in an open area near my office) and the IT people started nosing around. My project has no connection with the data center so I never involved them (plus I don't need them for one computer that's primarily doing number crunching. Everyone in the building (outside the data center) does whatever they want (the university does not manage their computer - but will turn off their ports if the computer becomes a problem). It seems that just because my office is PHYSICALLY located in the data center, I have no rights whatsoever. Even though there is no real difference between connecting my computer in my office or connecting it to a port in an office across the hall from the data center. If there were a real security threat then at least I could understand this. But from everything I know, this is purely political with me caught in the middle.
The data center won't consider ANY solution. They won't let me buy my own port and they won't accomodate me in ANY way. I guess I will either have to get the department to find me another office or take the machine home. Needless to say, I haven't found this place to be very accomodating.
Getting pretty far off-topic here, but if you don't need anything specific to the data center LAN and no other network is available there, why did you end up in that building?
A lot is riding on this. Not only this grant, but if this grant succeeds then there is a much bigger grant to follow. I just started at this university and apparently getting a relatively large (first time) grant after being here only a couple of months counts for nothing . I have had to learn everything here the hard way because they neither tell you what the rules are nor publish them anywhere. I did tell everyone about the grant and that I needed to buy and use my own computer equipment. The proposal was accepted by DOE in large part because it would be using innovative methods both in the use of statistical methods and also the use of computers.
Rick B.
