<div dir="ltr">If you can keep your utilization high, then your own hardware can be much more cost effective. However, if you end up paying depreciation and maintenance on a cluster that's doing nothing most of the time you'd be better off in the cloud.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Michael Carroll <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:carroll.michael@gmail.com" target="_blank">carroll.michael@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Depending on what you are going to do, it seems like it would make more sense to use AWS or Digital Ocean these days, rather than standing up your own hardware. Maintaining your own hardware sucks.<div><br></div><div>That being said, if you are doing something that requires InfiniBand, then hardware is your only choice :)</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>~mc</div></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Joshua Pritt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ramgarden@gmail.com" target="_blank">ramgarden@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">My friends and I installed a Beowulf cluster on a closet full of Pentium 75 Mhz machines we were donated just for fun many years ago back when Beowulf was just getting popular. We never figured out anything to do with it though...</div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Brian Oborn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:linuxpunk@gmail.com" target="_blank">linuxpunk@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">In my previous job I set up several production Beowulf clusters, mainly for particle physics simulations and this has been an area of intense interest for me. I would be excited to help you out and I think I could provide some good assistance.<div><br></div><div>Brian Oborn (aka bobbytables)<br><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span>On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Stephan Henning <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shenning@gmail.com" target="_blank">shenning@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span><div dir="ltr">Does anyone on the mailing list have any experience with setting up a cluster computation system? If so and you are willing to humor my questions, I'd greatly appreciate a few minutes of your time. <span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-stephan</div></font></span></div>
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