-- VUM hosted national service, e.g., CSAR

 -- VUM:  Bezzier --- v small
 -- UMIST:  Cosmos and Eric --- v small

 -- UoM:  Horace --- v small

 -- many small Beowulfs around campus 

 -- no real strategy, no Uni capital spending...

 ...then came Manchester Informatics and lots of meetings...
     -- more meetings, req captures, talk, meetings, req captures...
     -- ervs
     -- made mistake of asking me to be project manager...

. . .and we ended up with. . .