[MLUG] Cloud Computing

[Patricia Campbell]

Not when the cost is low.  About 10 years ago I set up a linux ssi
cluster for a research lab they had to buy & maintain the hardware
pay me to deploy it.   That would be a much easier proposition  using
the cloud.


On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:34 PM, spam spammer <nospamormorespam at gmail.com> wrote:
> "The concept of the cloud is the future of parallel and ssi computing. You
> have the ability of instantiate a cluster in minutess to do your heavy
> calculations, you pay for bandwidth & processing time.  Then when you don't
> need it you pack up your image & go home... much more cost and time
> effective than maintaining your own cluster."
>
> My ex used to work at NRC/CNRS the office close by to where Blue Bonnets
> was.  So I can only go by what she told me about they operated.
> They have a room filed with a 'cluster'. Alessandra was doing molecular
> modelling, rather CPU intensive stuff for a plethora of reasons. When she
> had a 'job' to process, she had to submit it to done sometime after working
> hours, otherwise it would simply take over all the machine's capacity. The
> cluster is set up so that it portions out its work space according to needs,
> it is always on, save for particular things or events. So everyone has
> access to the cluster as needed. It is the work space that is split
> according to the requirements of the moment and the jobs at hand. All the
> computers on the site are networking, are on line and whatever else you care
> to mention. And yes, it's a Linux system.
>
> Set up in that, or a similar fashion, I don't see where out sourcing would
> be more cost effective. A large corporation that needs cluster work, would
> already have all the machines and networking matériel on site! A small
> company, if it needed that calculating power, would probably have a more
> sizeable computer as THAT would be far better cost wise.
>
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