Department or Central computing resources?

The title says it all - what's better in the Monash Uni environment?

Central Computing Resources - Monash now has an eResearch Centre complete with projects to provide (or take over, depending on your viewpoint and knowledge of the history of facilities) disk, tape and compute resources like the monash sun grid.

ECSE dept. has the CTIE Pizza Cluster - which for most of it's life hasn't run as a grid cluster, but as a convienient set of compute nodes running specialist software and simulations.

So here we are with the chance to make changes:
Do we buy a few more rack mount boxes (perhaps sun x4150 dual quad core xeon's) or do we try and get the eResearch mob to provide boxes for our use resourced up to the level required by our non-grid software requirements?

Time for meetings and more meetings.