----- Original Message ---- From: Mark Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Buccaneer for Hire. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: beowulf@beowulf.org Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 11:50:29 AM Subject: Re: [Beowulf] distributed file storage solution?
> | Just as an FYI, I would recommend that whatever you decide on, you develop a > | "show me" attitude and test it at your location using your job mix BEFORE > you > | spend a dime on it. They you can decide how much time and money it will take > | to make it work. > > have you had success with this approach? Absolutely it does. They promise they can do something better than anyone else can, let them prove it. > I'm pretty sure vendors would have > laughed at us if we asked for it, though for something small (few TB, > <100 clients, etc), I'm sure it would work. then again, anyone could do > that sort of small project on a weekend. if you have hundreds of clients, > expensive (non-Gb) interconnect, multiple racks, power,cooling,floor needs, > I don't think you'll get a lot of people offering to do full demos for you. Why would they laugh? We manage our cluster efficiently and get a lot of real work done. If you tell me you can improve that (otherwise why change anything), shouldn't you be willing to put your money where your mouth is? When I tell my masters we should go with something, I make sure I have all the facts stacked in my favor so there are no surprises. When my masters fail to listen and impulse buy I wind up with a file system with infiniband (which has been talked about here) that a year later when I asked my co-sysadmin here if it was finally running, he smiles and answers, "That depends on how what you mean by running... Yes it runs, yes we break it 100% of the time." >in short, if you do this, aren't you effectively pre-selecting high-margin >vendors? Who cares what the margins are? If they have something that will increase the ability of our cluster to complete more jobs in a shorter amount of time-is that not why we are here? ____________________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
