On 10-06-26 08:40 PM, Robert Brockway wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jun 2010, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > >> I am aware of this. I've been a long time user and supporter of dells and >> custom built blackboxes, workstations and servers, running usually linux of >> various kinds, clustered via SGE. > > Hi Edward. I misunderstood sorry. I read your original email as 'I'm > getting in to HPC' and responded as such :) > >> The root concept is: Break away from the assumption of xeon or equivalent >> amd processors. Jump down to the super small, super low-power, super cheap >> class of processors, atom, arm, etc... and use them to beat the xeons for >> some situations, such as distributed work load, or server virtualization. > > I'm quite open to this possibility. One problem with using many small > processors is that many problems _are not_ heavily parallelizable[1]. If > you can break your task into thousands of subtasks then great - it may > well be an good choice but there are alot of variables involved. >
Another issue is licensing cost. Some software vendors still charge licenses per core, and in some markets, software can still be several order of magnitude the cost of hardware. -- Yves. http://www.SollerS.ca/ xmpp:[email protected] _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
