Biography
I started working as the Computer Manager at Pirbright in 1984; it was then the Animal Virus Research Institute, which, in 1987, became one of the four labs of the Institute for Animal Health and thence, in October 2012, The Pirbright Institute. Each lab consisted of well spread buildings situated across England and Scotland so, of necessity, I developed an interest in networking. Before that I had worked in Edinburgh and Basel (Switzerland) writing various application and system programs and spending spare time skiing.
Abstract
Constraints of provisioning networking and other computing facilities within challenging environments
The Pirbright Institute works on animal virus diseases. Some of these viruses are endemic to the UK, eg. Avian Influenza virus, and the research must be done in facilities where cross infection and infection from outside is prevented. Others are exotic to the UK, eg. Foot and Mouth Disease virus, and research then also requires that the agents must be prevented from exiting the facilities. Physical, chemical and behavioural barriers are in place to mitigate these threats and these create a difficult and, somewhat, interesting environment to work within when providing networking and other computing facilities within the organisation.
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