> Mitchel Kagawa wrote: > > LUAU Gurus, > > Allow me to introduce myself, My name is Mitchel... I am the Sys. > Admin. for a local tech company located in downtown Honolulu. My > company is in the final stages of purchasing a Linux Beowulf cluster > that will reside in a basement office in our building. We are going > to be awarding the hardware contract next week. We are split between > 2 vendors, one is local here in Hawaii and one is in California. The > local vendor, as part of their service contract, will provide hardware > support as well installation of MPI and scheduler software. The > mainland vendor will of course only provide telephone support, however > their system is approximately 20% cheaper. I am having a hard time > trying to convince my boss to "buy hawaii" because a $50k price > difference is hard to swallow. > > So here's my dilema... If we are forced to purchase from the > mainland vendor I will be looking to sub contract some service for our > computer from a local tech company. However I am having the hardest > time finding a local company with expreience setting up and > maintaining a beowulf cluster. So I figure one of you LUAU gurus must > know of someone. Can you help me out? Thank > > ~MK ###################
Need Beowolf Guru. There is one guy I know. Derek he is sometimes on the list. Ron Willis know how to reach him. -- Aloha! Al Plant - Webmaster http://hawaiidakine.com Providing FAST DSL Service for $28.00 /mo. Member Small Business Hawaii. Running FreeBSD 4.5 UNIX & Caldera Linux 2.4 & RedHat 7.2 Support OPEN SOURCE in Business Computing. Phone 808-622-0043
