On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 03:35:39AM +0000, Lux, Jim (US 7140) via Beowulf wrote: > Yeah, but it is quiet enough to put in your office and not drive your office > mate out? >
A colleague got hold of 2x 4U servers with 56 cores and stacked them with disk and memory then found a wheeled 9U soundproofed case - quiet enough to sit in a library and not wind up the librarians except on initial boot up. Also small enough to fit under a standard desk if your standard desk is 1800mm. I was involved in building a 64 node RAspberry Pi cluster for fun but it was for fun only and not hugely capable. Raspberry Pi 4s might make it more worthwhile but still not convinced. 4 x Limulus machines and the support of this group - priceless :) Andy Cater. > > From: Jonathan Engwall <engwalljonathanther...@gmail.com> > Date: Tuesday, August 24, 2021 at 3:43 PM > To: Jim Lux <james.p....@jpl.nasa.gov> > Cc: Douglas Eadline <deadl...@eadline.org>, "beowulf@beowulf.org" > <beowulf@beowulf.org> > Subject: Re: [Beowulf] [EXTERNAL] Re: Deskside clusters > > EMC offers dual socket 28 physical core processors. That's a lot of computer. > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2021, 1:33 PM Lux, Jim (US 7140) via Beowulf > <beowulf@beowulf.org<mailto:beowulf@beowulf.org>> wrote: > Yes, indeed.. I didn't call out Limulus, because it was mentioned earlier in > the thread. > > And another reason why you might want your own. > Every so often, the notice from JPL's HPC goes out to the users - > "Halo/Gattaca/clustername will not be available because it is reserved for > Mars {Year}" While Mars landings at JPL are a *big deal*, not everyone is > working on them (in fact, by that time, most of the Martians are now working > on something else), and you want to get your work done. I suspect other > institutional clusters have similar "the 800 pound (363 kg) gorilla has > requested" scenarios. > > > <snip> > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
