On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Jeff Layton <layto...@att.net> wrote:
>I don't want to take a public list to pick a fight but I don't want Rahul to >bad mouth me, my reputation, and the company I work for without some >sort or rebuttal. Jeff: I'm sorry that you take this as bad mouthing you. I sincerely apologize as this wasn't the intention at all. I am speaking with several vendors and my comments weren't directed at you. It is true though that we have been a major purchaser of Dell systems. Sometimes we are happy and sometimes we are not . And this goes to all vendors. Now there is one thing (in hindsight) that I think *I am* guilty of: I've been posting a lot of questions on the list. Many of you guys are very well paid professionals and I ought not to be abusing your time for free. I apologize if I have. On the other hand let me make my position clearer: Buying a good system for my institution is a goal, sure. But a lot of this benchmarking that I do here is from a purely scientific curiosity I have in understanding what I am buying or working with. Building, selling, or maintaining Beowulf systems is *not* my primary occupation. But all through my graduate student stint I've worked on these and I cannot help that I have a curiosity for this stuff. Clusters, linux and Beowulf and all the related stuff is fascinating. I just want to know more about the systems I am using. I am willing to do my homework but sometimes post to get opinions from other experts that know better. Of course, I do realize that this is free advice from peers and I have no expectation of more. Again, I apologize if I hurt any feelings. That wasn't my intention at all. -- Rahul _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
