Yes Charlie, But my question was relating to the personal use of homegrown systems. There is certainly a use for the same tech in an institutional environment.
But what of homegrown systems that cannot be taken to work, or made part of a commercial product, that were just made because it could be done? And I did get some ideas, but the general response seems to be "apart from R&D, unless you're a mathematician or scientist, not much"... I think this is why it needs the institutional environment - because it needs at least two skillsets to be useful. One to build the box and another one to build the apps. And probably another skillset again to use the apps, interpret the output etc. Stu On 17 Sep 2010 at 11:53, Charlie Peck wrote: > >> Cute, but my question is, what use is one of these homegrown platforms? > > How about education, outreach and training? There are at least a couple of > projects [1] that use small, home-built clusters in e.g. for undergraduate CS > education, faculty education/re-training for parallel programming and cluster > computing, and the like. Microsoft [2] and others have also used platforms > like this to explore low-power, on-demand compute platforms. --- Stuart Udall stuart a...@cyberdelix.dot net - http://www.cyberdelix.net/ --- * Origin: lsi: revolution through evolution (192:168/0.2) _______________________________________________ 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
