Douglas Eadline wrote:
Fellow HPC types:
I have been running a micro-poll over at
Linux Magazine asking about how the
economy has effected your 2009 plans.
A (somewhat) related question.
In December 2007 I bought a quad core home PC (actually, if you go by
the labels on it, it's meant for teenagers to store their
pirated^H^H^H^H^Hdownloaded movies and songs on).
It functions perfectly for running test versions (top-of-trunk) of our
Weather Forecasting code, using Debian testing, Open-MPI and GNU Fortran
on the grid we used until October 2006 operationally at the Dutch
Weather Service.
Normally, I would retire this machine end-of-2010 (3 years is a
reasonable time period for the economic viability of a computer).
However, I haven't seen any progress in capabilities in home computers
in the past 14 months (other than that most are now sold *standard* with
4 Gbyte - apparently 64-bit Vista is now a "working" option).
So what I'm thinking of is to replace it in 2010-2011 with a blade solution.
But I have no idea how to price these things. If I want to spend
roughly the same amount of money I spent on this home machine (1000-1200
Euros), what can I expect ?
Thanks for you insight ...
--
Toon Moene - e-mail: [email protected] (*NEW*) - phone: +31 346 214290
Saturnushof 14, 3738 XG Maartensdijk, The Netherlands
At home: http://moene.org/~toon/
Progress of GNU Fortran: http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.4/changes.html
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