On 10/21/10 9:37 AM, Robert G. Brown wrote:
Of course (he chimes in from the bleachers where he is quietly sitting
and wishing he were drinking a beer while watching students -- also
wishing they were drinking a beer -- take a physics exam:-) this simply
puts the world back where it was so long ago before the beowulf concept
was invented...
Did someone say 'beer'? I'll take one (two) please...
The real beauty of clusters (to me) has always been at least partly the
fact that you could build YOURSELF a cluster, just for your own
research, without having to have major leadership, infrastructure,
space, or other resources.
We are seeing a number of university research locations where there is a
top down push to consolidate HPC under a unified campus IT umbrella. To
pull localized HPC resources out of departments and labs, pull the gear
into a centralized and managed enterprise location and convert the
researchers into resource customers of the unified HPC resource. In some
cases to the point where the university administration plans to no
longer fund localized expenditures on increased HVAC or room
retrofitting for HPC.
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