Sorta like an old man's underwear, Steve: Depends. On-demand cluster computing in Amazon Web Services using the spot market is certainly cost-effective for now & then computing demands. If you're a 24x7 big computing kind of a company, it probably makes better sense still to buy & operate your own hardware.
Life-cycle econ cost analysis is your friend, here. Oh, and the Beemer GS is a fine road bike that also just happens to not be allergic to dirt, thanks for asking. :) --Doug On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > And what would a BMW GS kinda guy like Doug consider as capable in the > big open highways, rain-slicked twisties and the logging roads of > scientific computing? -- *Doug Roberts [email protected] [email protected]* *http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins*<http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> * <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> 505-455-7333 - Office 505-672-8213 - Mobile*
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