On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 10:47:00AM +1000, SIM DOG wrote: > I recently visited a large educational institution (that shall remain > nameless) that hosts an excellent, world class, science research team. > They also have a reasonably large Beowulf environment (over 100 dual nodes). > > Now maybe it was just the people I was talking too (management) but I > get the distinct impression that they treat their 'Wulf as an > 'appliance'. It came as a great disappointment :/
Why so? That cluster didn't cost that much compared to half a person, unless the person is a grad student. Which doesn't fit their reliability criterion ;-) I'm a big fan of supercomputing appliances. It's only when a cluster is big that it always makes sense to have an on-staff expert. -- greg (back from vacation, avoiding reading the end of that previous thread...) _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
