Quoting Mark Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Thu 03 Apr 2008 02:04:20 PM PDT:
are a Windows shop, and thus the cost of hiring or training staff
would more than outweigh any savings on licenses.
this is absurd! buying a windows cluster just means that the new
cluster admins you need to hire or train will now labor under the
dark-age infrastructure of windows rather than *nix. it's not as if
any existing windows desktop or server admins will have mad mpi skilz...
OTOH, the suggestion was that this is basically a "turn-key" cluster
with an application pre-installed. No MPI skills needed. Basically,
it's just another faster computer. (Which is what companies like
Orion MultiSystems were/are targeting.. a faster box under the desk)
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