John R Pierce wrote:
On 03/07/12 2:09 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Heh. Many of the new servers we are getting are all on the order of 48 or 64 cores, and they eat and drink power. The same UPS that would handle six 4 or 8 core boxes can handle*three*, if we're lucky, when a clustering job's running....
yes but that 48 core server can easily handle 6 or more of those 4-8 core servers virtualized.
VM's? Sorry, we're doing very serious scientific computing - the couple or so VMs we had are going away. I mean, when, for example, one guy I support gets on a 48 core box, and proceeds to fire up an R job, and uses *all* of them.... Plus, we're running out of UPSs to stick them on to, and sockets to reach....
mark "gotta build that last one of the cluster today"