The Pembroke lab, however, is normally closed during the first two weeks of the semester. McClure does not know of any current plans to add additional clusters. I'm sure there are many other areas of the University that would be only too happy to improve their services if more funding were available. In the last few years, Brown has completely overhauled its network, said Christina Wilson '00, another consultant. The CIT is open 24 hours, and we've gotten some new computers.
Some people suggest solutions other than buying new computers.
The others are in the training rooms. These are used heavily during the day for training classes and in the evenings by the Brown Learning Community. We reconfigure these room at the end of the semester for dedicated cluster use. McClure pointed out an additional difficulty in using the rooms as clusters. The problem in the training rooms would be worse, because the scheduled room use varies a lot more than classroom use does.