normally according to moores law new technology is released every 18 months. right now there are the i7's which have just been released.
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Toon Moene <t...@moene.org> wrote: > Douglas Eadline wrote: > > Fellow HPC types: >> >> I have been running a micro-poll over at >> Linux Magazine asking about how the >> economy has effected your 2009 plans. >> > > A (somewhat) related question. > > In December 2007 I bought a quad core home PC (actually, if you go by the > labels on it, it's meant for teenagers to store their > pirated^H^H^H^H^Hdownloaded movies and songs on). > > It functions perfectly for running test versions (top-of-trunk) of our > Weather Forecasting code, using Debian testing, Open-MPI and GNU Fortran on > the grid we used until October 2006 operationally at the Dutch Weather > Service. > > Normally, I would retire this machine end-of-2010 (3 years is a reasonable > time period for the economic viability of a computer). > > However, I haven't seen any progress in capabilities in home computers in > the past 14 months (other than that most are now sold *standard* with 4 > Gbyte - apparently 64-bit Vista is now a "working" option). > > So what I'm thinking of is to replace it in 2010-2011 with a blade > solution. > > But I have no idea how to price these things. If I want to spend roughly > the same amount of money I spent on this home machine (1000-1200 Euros), > what can I expect ? > > Thanks for you insight ... > > -- > Toon Moene - e-mail: t...@moene.org (*NEW*) - phone: +31 346 214290 > Saturnushof 14, 3738 XG Maartensdijk, The Netherlands > At home: http://moene.org/~toon/ > Progress of GNU Fortran: http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.4/changes.html > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- Jonathan Aquilina
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