--snip-- > > This has been my argument for personal clusters... There's no accounting > staff or administrative person watching over you to make sure you are > effectively using the capital investment, in the same sense that most > places don't care how much idle time there is on your desktop PC. If > you've got an idea, and you're willing to put your own time (free?) into > it, using the box that happens to be in your office or lab, nobody cares > one way or another, as long as your primary job gets done. > Notwithstanding that there ARE places that do cycle harvesting from > desktop machines, but the management and sysadmin hassles are so extreme > (I've written software to DO such harvesting, in pre-Beowulf days).. Those > kinds of places go to thin clients and hosted VM instances eventually, I > think.
BTW, very soon prebuilt Limulus systems will be available (http://limulus.basement-supercomputing.com) with 16 cores (four i5-2500S processors), one power plug, cool, quiet, with cool blue lights to impress your co-workers. -- Doug > > > Where an Amazon could do themselves a favor (maybe they do this already) > is to provide a free downloadable version of their environment for your > own computer, or some "low priority cycles" for free, to get people > hooked. Sort of like IBM providing computers for cheap to universities in > the 60s and 70s. Razors, razor blades. Kindles, e-books. Subsidized > cellphones, 10 cent text messages. Give us your child 'til 7, and he's > ours for life. > > >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > -- Doug -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ 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
