Hi,
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 1:00 AM, Ellis H. Wilson III
wrote:
> Also, I would argue if a company is selling you an HPC solution, it's
> either:
> 1. A true Beowulf in terms of using COTS hardware, in which case you are
> likely getting less than your money is worth or
Well, depends on how you
On 10/26/10 04:16, Hearns, John wrote:
I have worked as an engineer for two HPC companies - Clustervision and
Streamline.
My slogan phrase on this issue is "Any fool can go down PC World and buy
a bunch of PCs"
Well if you are buying PCs in bulk at retail pricing, you are a fool
anyway. Plus
> I don't think you could find a statement more orthogonal to the spirit
> of the Beowulf list than, "Please, please don't "roll your own"
> system..." Isn't Beowulfery about the drawing together of inexpensive
> components in an intelligent fashion suited just for your particular
> application wh
Not that there is anything wrong with that.
>
> As usual, a highly insightful post from RGB.
>
>
>
>> a) Multiple copies. Passenger pigeons may be robust, but once the
> number of copies drops below a critical point, they are gone. E. Coli
> we will always have
>> with us (possibly in a const
Heading completely off-topic now, but the area of digital media and long-term
archival/retrieval is something that I find very interesting. I'll leave it to
Rob to somehow eventually tie this back into a discussion of COTs technology
and HPC.
> > It's interesting: I just got an iPad a few wee
