Not when the cost is low. About 10 years ago I set up a linux ssi cluster for a research lab they had to buy & maintain the hardware pay me to deploy it. That would be a much easier proposition using the cloud.
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:34 PM, spam spammer <[email protected]> wrote: > "The concept of the cloud is the future of parallel and ssi computing. You > have the ability of instantiate a cluster in minutess to do your heavy > calculations, you pay for bandwidth & processing time. Then when you don't > need it you pack up your image & go home... much more cost and time > effective than maintaining your own cluster." > > My ex used to work at NRC/CNRS the office close by to where Blue Bonnets > was. So I can only go by what she told me about they operated. > They have a room filed with a 'cluster'. Alessandra was doing molecular > modelling, rather CPU intensive stuff for a plethora of reasons. When she > had a 'job' to process, she had to submit it to done sometime after working > hours, otherwise it would simply take over all the machine's capacity. The > cluster is set up so that it portions out its work space according to needs, > it is always on, save for particular things or events. So everyone has > access to the cluster as needed. It is the work space that is split > according to the requirements of the moment and the jobs at hand. All the > computers on the site are networking, are on line and whatever else you care > to mention. And yes, it's a Linux system. > > Set up in that, or a similar fashion, I don't see where out sourcing would > be more cost effective. A large corporation that needs cluster work, would > already have all the machines and networking matériel on site! A small > company, if it needed that calculating power, would probably have a more > sizeable computer as THAT would be far better cost wise. > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > > -- ___..___........__.......__ ...|....|__/....|...|......|...|__| ...|....|.....\...|...|__..|...|....| "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Mohandas K Gandhi _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
