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Abolishing a computer cluster

In the past, high-energy physicists could afford computer

administrators which is why a separate high-energy computer cluster

was created at Harvard, among other places.

That's not quite the case today and the Harvard high-energy group has

lived without a full-time computer support - and with constantly

malfunctioning printers, among other things - for several years. Does

it mean that Harvard doesn't have enough money to provide a decent

computer support for its high-energy physicists?

Yes and no. It is not hard to calculate that if the world were free of

the irrational influence of feminism, the high-energy physics group

could afford a computer support until Christmas of the year 3507.

Unfortunately, the world is not free of these things which is why

Harvard University was forced by some of its segments to pay for

things like the $50 million diversity tax instead.

At any rate, the high-energy theoretical physics group has recently

voted to get rid of the unsustainable cluster although no one quite

knows who would actually do the actual job of transformation and its

design and what the future computing would look like. Fortunately, the

physics department staff is very good.

So today we got rid of the schwinger.harvard.edu e-mail server. The

schwinger.harvard.edu web server hasn't worked for a week or so and it

is likely that it never will but it will hopefully be redirected to a

different place at some moment.

One of the first advantages of the new e-mail server is a better spam

filter that has reduced the number of junk e-mails in my mailbox from