Re: Who's using Debian: Electronics Research Group, University of Aberdeen
Hi Donald,
On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 10:26:15AM -0400, Donald Norwood wrote:
> We are in the process of updating the “Who's using Debian?” web page[1]
> on which you have an entry[2].
We're not currently listed on the page, but the following could be added:
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Electronics Research Group, University of Aberdeen
Website: http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/
Contact: iain@erg.abdn.ac.uk
The University of Aberdeen is among the UK's top research universities, as
noted in the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE 2008) - a year long
independent evaluation of the quality of research undertaken across
Britain's universities.
The Electronics Research Group (ERG) of the School of Engineering part of
the College of Physical Sciences at the University of Aberdeen performs
research relating to the design, simulation, optimisation, and benchmarking
of systems. It is functions as one of the School of Engineering Research
Groups.
The research group operates its own dedicated research network. The testbed
supports the work performed in the research laboratories and remote test
sites. The prime use of the testbed is to investigate communications
systems and identify potential performance problems, suggest appropriate
techniques which may improve performance, and to analyse the impact of
implementing specific techniques.
In order to perform this research, the research group runs a number of
services including web, mail and DNS on Debian stable servers. We first
began to use Debian on our mail and DNS servers in 2011 on sparc64 servers,
although we are now almost entirely using amd64. The stability of Debian
allows us to spend less time maintaining these supporting services and more
time working on our research.
We have also used Debian stable and Debian testing in testbeds. The
ease in which we can deploy a number of machines configured into the
topology we need and be able to get to performing the actual research makes
Debian perfect for this use. When we use Debian stable we can also know that
other researchers will be able to more easily replicate our setup in order
to reproduce our research.
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If desired, I may be able to follow up with a photo of our racks. The one I
have currently is quite outdated but I plan to get a new one next weekend.
Thanks,
Iain.
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