• Occasional whitepaper-related meetings since June 2008

Funding Model — IT Services-Run Comp. Shared-Fac.

• One-off capital secured from centre: 90k
  • Cluster infra. (head nodes, storage, network h/w. . .)
• All compute nodes must be paid for by research groups
  • With "tax" to contribute to future infrastructure
• No contribution, (almost) no use!

From Many to One

• Academics encouraged to buy in to central facility
  • strongly discouraged from buying own (small) clusters

Whitepaper published in latter part of 2009. . .