I've spoken quite extensively to several organisations here in
Western Australia who each have 1000+cpu systems in Perth, 2000+cpu
systems in London and 4000+ systems in Houston (oil and gas seismic
processing). They tell me that they have tried to sell just the
cycle time to no success. The value is in the specialised services
they offer (in these cases seismic processing), which just happen to
use a lot of cpu's.
These companies even go as far to roll their own cluster file systems
(using FUSE+nfs) and writing their own queuing/scheduling environment
etc. The higher level services certainly pay well :)
Stu.
On 27/09/2006, at 3:10, Angel Dimitrov wrote:
Hello,
I have some experience of running of numerical weather models on
clusters.
Is there many clients for processor time? As I saw the biggest
supercomputers in the World are very busy! I'm wondering if it's
worthwhile to setup a commercial cluster. Intel are planning for new
processors - two CPUs each with quad cores. Two such machines will
have power like one 50 GHz CPU:-)
Any ideas and comments are welcome!
Angel
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