Thus spake Marcus G. Daniels circa 09-08-20 10:26 AM: > One nice thing about what Amazon does in contrast to most supercomputing > centers is to let you boot whatever kernel image you want. That can be > important for diagnosing and fixing some kinds of problems.
Not only for problems; but without the ability to replicate the entire toolchain all the way down through the OS, our transition from cluster to cloud would have to wait for a scientific and development punctuation point... which almost never happens. ;-) -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://agent-based-modeling.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
