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# From: Iain Learmonth <iain@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
# Submission email: https://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2015/09/msg00039.html
# 2015 WHO Audit. New Entry
<define-tag pagetitle>Electronics Research Group, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland</define-tag>
<define-tag webpage>https://erg.abdn.ac.uk/</define-tag>
#use wml::debian::users
<p>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.</p>
<p>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 functions as one of the School of
Engineering's Research Groups.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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