On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 12:19:26AM +0000, Graeme Stewart wrote:
> From the CIC portal, biomed described itself as:
>
> "These VO covers the areas related to health sciences. Currently, it
> is divided in 3 sectors: medical imaging, bioinformatics and drug
> discovery."
>
> We support the VO for it to engage in _that_ work, and we're happy to
> have done work related to malaria, avian flu, etc. However, I don't
> see anything about rsa768 factorisation.
>
> So, this is, to my mind, even worse. This is not just Heinz being a
> loose cannon, but sites being conned by top level EGEE management
> into running jobs to which they had in no way agreed to run.
>
> The problem was then exacerbated by the way that Heinz wrote the
> code, which resulted in biomed being able to grab far more of many,
> many clusters in the UK than was reasonable. (And so much for EGEE
> promoting push model RBs - just send in the pilots and watch our
> fairsharing go all to hell.)
This is exactly what I was going to say (better worded and probably far
more polite though).
> Frankly, as the UK, I think we should give them a bloody rocket for
> this. They've shown huge disrespect to sites - and how on earth can
> they expect other EGEE users and VOs to play by the rules when then
> engage in such a gross violation of our trust?
...
> We haven't banned biomed - we've banned Heinz. And I am in no hurry
> to unban him. I'd expect an apology at the very least, as well as an
> assurance that this will not happen again.
People should keep in mind that we are going to have similar cases in
the future. If our responce today is going to be "a sorry is enough"
what is going to stop the next user doing the same thing tomorrow
considering how hard it is for us to spot an abuse? Unless there is
a strong repsonce people will think "If I am not found (quite likely)
great, if I am found a sorry will solve everything".
Cheers,
Kostas
PS> BTW if the management agrees that breaking rsa768 is fine then I'll
have a go as well or is it only Heinz/biomed that can have a go?
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