Re: [Beowulf] Utility Supercomputing...

2013-03-02 Thread James Cuff
Hi Mark, We do have a common mission. It is a shame you and I will never agree. Thanks for the input - great points. Best, j. On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Mark Hahn wrote: > I'm guessing the answer is that your market is mainly people who are too > self-important (anything health- or fin

Re: [Beowulf] Utility Supercomputing...

2013-03-02 Thread Mark Hahn
> We do have a common mission. It is a shame you and I will never agree. if you say so. I'm curious if you have any comments on the question of how the EC2 spot market price will behave. thanks, mark hahn. ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org

Re: [Beowulf] Utility Supercomputing...

2013-03-02 Thread Mark Hahn
> had some of all of this. The cool thing about IaaS providers is they > can (not always) get a hold of more recent kit, and if you are smart > about how you use it you can see huge benefits from all of this, even > down to simple changes to CPU spec at a simple level, to much larger > wins if you

Re: [Beowulf] Innovative liquid cooling

2013-03-02 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 03:44:27PM -0500, Prentice Bisbal wrote: > Think of how much we'd save by not needing to reinforce the raised > floors. Heck, we wouldn't even need raised floors, just some tie-downs. > > Mercury is even better. It's a nice round "8" and it's really easy to > clean up wh

Re: [Beowulf] Utility Supercomputing...

2013-03-02 Thread James Cuff
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 11:31 PM, Mark Hahn wrote: >> >> http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-02-28/utility_supercomputing_heats_up.html Hi Mark, Great points you raise here! Lovely to have this discussion, let me have a crack at some of them in line. This is fun! > well, it's HPC wire - I alwa