This is getting very non-HPC/Beowulf-ish. My last public post on
this. Email me offline if you want to continue the discussion.
On 04/14/2013 01:53 PM, Ellis H. Wilson III wrote:
> On 04/14/2013 12:23 PM, Joe Landman wrote:
>> On 04/14/2013 10:31 AM, Ellis H. Wilson III wrote:
>>> I think this
I, for one, would appreciate less meta-discussion. it doesn't deserve
more than a few sentences, does it?
whereas Moonshot is at least an interesting server packaging development.
how about this: I claim it's just a low-overhead, horizontally mounted blade
system. I admit I've never particularly
On 04/14/2013 12:23 PM, Joe Landman wrote:
> On 04/14/2013 10:31 AM, Ellis H. Wilson III wrote:
>> I think this is strongly dependent upon whether or not the audience of
>> the list is already exposed to the media outlet the article is from.
>
> Hmmm ... a natural extension of this argument, not re
I cannot agree with this piece highly enough.
Widespread cloud availability, GPU, etc, has enabled all sorts of weird, wacky,
and _useful_ large-scale technical computing use cases, and arguing about
whether new use case X is "really" HPC has long since lost whatever novelty it
had. I'm plea
> http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2261273/hp-talks-up-amds-kyoto-despite-seeing-intel-as-a-compute-workhorse?source=email_rt_mc_body
>
> (they're not talking about the signalling fabric yet)
first, I have to agree that posting whole articles is not optimal;
excerpts for commentary are fin
On 04/14/2013 12:46 PM, James Cuff wrote:
>
> Finally a well balanced,hype free article by respected industry expert
> Jeff Layton:
>
> http://www.admin-magazine.com/HPC/articles/the_cloud_s_role_in_hpc
Just read it. This is a very good article.
"I consider cloud computing a tool or technique fo
Finally a well balanced, hype free article by respected industry expert
Jeff Layton:
http://www.admin-magazine.com/HPC/articles/the_cloud_s_role_in_hpc
(Via iPhone)
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Dr. James Cuff
Chief Technology Officer
Cycle Computing
*Leader in Utility Supercomputing and Cloud HPC Software*
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On 04/14/2013 10:31 AM, Ellis H. Wilson III wrote:
> I wanted to add my data point to this discussion as I find it very
> interesting, but I want to simultaneously stress how important it is (to
> me at least) that we keep this civil. Both of you guys add a lot to
> this list and it would be a gre
I wanted to add my data point to this discussion as I find it very
interesting, but I want to simultaneously stress how important it is (to
me at least) that we keep this civil. Both of you guys add a lot to
this list and it would be a great loss to have one or both of you drop
in activity bec
