-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 05:10:37PM +0100, Tim Cutts wrote: > Anyone running a research computing setup has encountered both of these > issues. Virtualisation mitigates the damage that can be done, without the > expense of an separate toy cluster, but it doesn't address these support and > transition to production issues.
Yeah, these are the problems you're going to hit with either toy clusters or VMs. The main reason I like VMs for this is that it eliminates a whole class of "futzing around with hardware" problems: I might have to help dig people out of their holes occasionally, but at least I don't need to go down to their labs and untangle a rats' nest of cables. I'm lucky enough to have a smallish and relatively good-humored use community, so when someone really craters their test system, they usually have a six-pack of my favorite beer on hand when they ask for help. ;-) But that doesn't really scale... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (Darwin) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRcZuKAAoJEGqxms5cZfz0iaIH/A1XmOzbAxaQ+IP8affA27Ga lqzMRAVdW6YxwrO5tWnLBakMe9TTYNL9peImLxA8wn+BpKpV8Gt/vpUs3aDjHp2s GjyseR3MsuURo6qYE4lBTPiWIlt5jthYwbeKKOn0gdFFTooDk655RlWpvNfwQAcO XQcbaFlh1G5XiL4mq1qYwYoK3URSc4fY9bOPEj02VNSV07slZaqn/yakjreQtUpf mwviehsbZ2EXXfpiNnpR8sc3qWBtk4bekt0A0f4INDS8BDjEXkTGrqqISn2dNGqu 4u0zhfVRjQa1SyZ57BIqLkZJ7DPidwIeQZHafNOwddKKRP4s4+6b6zHrIZKNdn4= =slqg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
