Jim, > Just back of the enveloping here.. > Let's say a "node" costs about $3k plus about $1500 in operating costs > over 3 years. Make it a round $5000 all told. A developer costs about > $250-300k, fully burdened for a year. So I can make the choice.. Buy > another 150 nodes or pay for the developer to make the processing more > efficient. Of course, if I buy the nodes, I get the faster computation > today. If I buy the developer, I have to wait some time for my faster > solution.
But if instead you were to hire a benchmarker, then you could achieve substantial gains in a matter or weeks or even less. There are those of us who specialize in optimization.... I have to wonder whether Roadrunner would have been more successful had key application codes been ported better. Cheers, Max _______________________________________________ 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
