Ellis, >> As to your "Issue #2:" >> >> "Owned compute" has some advantages over "rented compute." In general, the >> control one has over one's owned resources enables applications to run with >> greater performance. Some optimizations just demand root access! > > Although I hear those who have responded to this, this is particularly true > in my case as a systems researcher. Not only is my research impossible to > optimize without root access, it's impossible to perform whatsoever. Because > of that I am constantly at odds with my IT dept at PSU. Hence the NAS server > and small beo-cluster in my home...
I have had similar experiences - academic IT departments are the worst! > Are there any people out there that provide rented, but more traditionally > "HPC" compute (as in, it has Infiniband, huge memory, no virtualization, fast > NAS storage, etc)? I'm not sure there is a huge market for it, but it would > be an interesting and differentiated offering. Yes, there are. Regards, Max _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
