Quoting "Paul G. Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
One more thing to consider when purchasing a system is total bang for the buck (at least I always consider it). Comparing systems on Dell's
Yeah, though unfortunately we're often better off buying a system that has a faster raw throughput, even if it's not the best bang for the buck. The extra jobs our engineers can run using multi-million dollar licensed apps is worth more then the savings on the systems. As long as the speed difference is large enough to be seen in run times.
Then again, the same engineers panic when a job pends for 5-10 minutes before starting a run in the compute cluster (when it'll run for hours), and just can't wrap their brains around the difference between pending for a bit, and then getting a slot on a faster host, vs running immediately on a host that's much slower.
Well, some of them get it, others don't. -- Mike Marion-Unix/Linux Admin-http://www.miguelito.org "Curiosity killed the cat, but for awhile I was the suspect." -- Stephen Wright -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
