Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 08:23:14 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Fuhrman <cfuhrman@tfcci.com> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, "Andrew C. Hornback" <hornback@wireco.net>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Now a little OT but RE: FreeBSD and Linux (More Questions!) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0103160812040.10185-100000@icestorm.tfcc.com> In-Reply-To: <15024.21186.135020.488657@guru.mired.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > Oddly enough, the university I was working at had this interesting > problem that they kept having to charge less for CPU time. Grant money > got allocated for it, but few - if any - grants actually used all of > the CPU time they had purchased. So the IT center never used all their > budget for CPU time, so they overage was reflected in next years > budget, and the rates went down. > This reminds me of an old story told by my Simulations professor. Back in the department-x-gets-y-cpu-cycles days, they would run Simulations in FORTRAN since that was the only language available to do that sort of thing (there might have been others but they used FORTRAN for whatever reason). The budgeting was set up such that if you only used 80% of your alloted CPU time on the University system, then you were only alloted that much CPU time the following fiscal year. Since the department (Management Science? Statistics? Don't know...) didn't want to loose their CPU budget allotment, they came up with the following means of using up their surplus CPU time at the end of the fiscal year: I = 1 DO WHILE (1 .EQ. 1) I = I + 1 END DO Cheers! p.s. It's been 6 years since I've done any FORTRAN coding, so no nitpicking please. - -- Chris Fuhrman | Twenty First Century Communications cfuhrman@tfcci.com | Software Engineer (W) 614-442-1215 x271 | (F) 614-442-5662 | PGP/GPG Public Key Available on Request -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: PGPEnvelope - http://pgpenvelope.sourceforge.net iD8DBQE6shPKtZTBgtmnGNERAtnoAJ4t1X2h98AUGSDglU6LWdVNcVevugCgn3yL +CEzI/qFrO+b1vykfCmEcGI= =nqHx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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