> Hey team Beowulf,
> I, as most of you, always give a big hairy technical eyeball to any
> statements that include MPI and "cloud". I know I'm biased, but I do think
> Jason does a great job of >explaining "the bench", i.e. never assume raw
> horsepower until you test it! Always reminds me o
>> again, if you have a bursty load, you want to use a shared facility,
>> of which, EC2 spot instances is just one example.
>
> When talking of using a shared facility: The advantage I've
> sometimes seen for "cloud" over the traditional "get time on a
> shared cluster"
I should be clear - the ki
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> again, if you have a bursty load, you want to use a shared facility,
> of which, EC2 spot instances is just one example.
When talking of using a shared facility: The advantage I've
sometimes seen for "cloud" over the traditional "get time on a
s
Am 04.03.2013 um 12:38 schrieb Hearns, John:
>> Utility being a phrase that identifies how one can
>> turn on and off resource at the drop of a hat. If you are running
>> nodes 100% 365d/y on prem is still a serious win. If you have the odd
>> monster run, or are in a small shop with no access t
>> http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-02-28/utility_supercomputing_heats_up.html
>
> well, it's HPC wire - I always assume their name is acknowledgement that
> their content is much like "HPC PR wire", often or mostly
> vendor-sponsored.
> call me ivory-tower, but this sort of thing:
>
> Cy
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Mark Hahn wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm guessing the answer is that your market is mainly people who are too
>>> self-important (anything health- or finance-related) to do it themselves
>>> (or join a coop/consortium), or else people just getting their toes wet.
>
>
> James,
>> Utility being a phrase that identifies how one can
>> turn on and off resource at the drop of a hat. If you are running
>> nodes 100% 365d/y on prem is still a serious win. If you have the odd
>> monster run, or are in a small shop with no access to large scale
>> compute, utility is the only
> Utility being a phrase that identifies how one can
> turn on and off resource at the drop of a hat. If you are running
> nodes 100% 365d/y on prem is still a serious win. If you have the odd
> monster run, or are in a small shop with no access to large scale
> compute, utility is the only way
>> I'm guessing the answer is that your market is mainly people who are too
>> self-important (anything health- or finance-related) to do it themselves
>> (or join a coop/consortium), or else people just getting their toes wet.
James, FWIW, I regret that this was unnecessarily personal.
my though
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
> 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.
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> 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
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
> http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-02-28/utility_supercomputing_heats_up.html
well, it's HPC wire - I always assume their name is acknowledgement that
their content is much like "HPC PR wire", often or mostly vendor-sponsored.
call me ivory-tower, but this sort of thing:
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