Haha, I offer the usage of my two computer Beowulf cluster up 'as a service'. I guess it makes sense, though, as data centers cost a bit, and everything that costs a bit of money gets turned into a service...eg. R&D labs, etc.
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Prentice Bisbal < [email protected]> wrote: > On 05/10/2015 02:47 PM, John Hearns wrote: > >> This article might be interesting: >> >> >> http://www.information-age.com/technology/data-centre-and-it-infrastructure/123459441/inside-uks-first-collaborative-data-centre >> >> As it says 'Data-centre-as-a-service' >> A shared data centre, outside the centre of the city, used by several >> research inistitutes and universities. >> I have been involved in preparing bids for equipment there, including the >> innovative eMedlab project. >> >> > Ugh. Can we please stop tacking 'as-a-service' on to everything these > days? I'm starting to hate 'as-a-service' almost as much as 'cloud' and > 'big data'. While I get the point he's trying to make. It's really just an > off-site colocation facilty whose cost is shared between the different > partner institutions. > > Prentice > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- --Nathan Pimental, --Peppertree Labs (http://ptp.x10.mx)
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