I don't necessarily agree. It can be cost effective if you need it on a regular basis. With the prices the way they are you pay for what you need when you need it depending on the use / security etc it may be the most cost effective. In the case I sited it would be, it would also be more flexible.
Unless, like NRC you are using your facilities to capacity, then it is worthwhile to create a private cloud. On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:23 AM, spam spammer <[email protected]>wrote: > > > On 7 April 2011 00:10, Nick Sklav <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Here is a nice read similar to what Patricia was mentioning, This >> company got the aprox 10,000 cores running in an amazon cloud for 8 >> hours at the cost of aprox 9000$. And finished his project in that time >> frame so I guess the cloud is more than just a storage server ;) >> >> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/040611-linux-supercomputer.html >> >> Quite true, when you need that computing power once in a blue moon. But > not if you need it regularly! Which I think was the initial point. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
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