On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Sean Dilda wrote:
Tim Cutts wrote:
I find the initial question essentially impossible to answer. The whole
point of beowulf computing is that you can build it out of almost anything.
Most of the software is community driven. The ideas are community driven.
The leaders are the community, not any one company. The hardware is
commodity. I can't even name one when pushed to; I don't use any cluster
software I had to buy, and the vendors who made my hardware are pretty much
incidental - I could have used anyone.
And that answer to the first question makes the subsequent questions even
more impossible to answer.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that had that problem. For any relatively
large site, you're going to end up with a mostly custom configuration, even
if you start with a vendor's products.
Ya, well, I just said exactly that in my own response. Question one is
a text box, at least, not a bulleted list.
That does make many of the rest of the questions a bit "odd" to answer,
but with a small chance at a real live iPod at stake, heck, I put down
SOMETHING for the answers and leave it up to the survey designers to
interpret the results.
Of course if I win I'm stuck with the usual problem that AFAIK the ipod
won't play oggs, mp3's are encumbered and a lawsuit waiting to happen,
and apple's own format, while maybe not exactly closed, is not what my
40GB ogg music collection is in and I do NOT want to go back and rerip
all of my CDs (since of course I am absolutely religious about not
violating the DMCA -- or at least not by much -- and only rip within the
confines of prior personal ownership and acceptable use). So I'd rather
have a 60 GB iRiver, actually, or something else linux/ogg
friendly...;-)
rgb
For the cluster I setup here at Duke, its run by open source applications
that were pieced together by hand instead of being part of a packaged cluster
distro. A friend of mine used to run a pre-packaged setup (Rocks, I
believe). After a year of that, he came to me and asked how I set mine up.
He found that having everything put together for him meant he knew how none
of the pieces worked together, so he was lost when something broke. Being
able to build the pieces himself allowed him to see how the setup worked
together and be better able to diagnose problems on site.
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