On Saturday 17 July 2010, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Greetings, > > On 7/17/10, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > > On 07/16/10 11:01 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > > > > is your goal a "server" or "supercomputing"? all that tesla stuff sorta > > says supercomputing, while HA etc says 'server'. > > > > supercomputer clusters eschew HA in favor of having many independent > > compute units in a loose cluster that can tolerate any node dying by > > simply reassigning its last work unit to another node. only the > > persistent storage (usually a SAN or a clustered file system), and the > > cluster controller needs conventional HA. > > I was thinking more about a "personal supercomputer in a cloud" > > HA is a requirement for cloud. So I guess I have to think further about it. Lol, saturday morning entertainment :-) Combining HA + "personal supercomputer" + "in a cloud" + using GPUs sure maxed out my troll-o-meter. Very creative. /Peter -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100717/a65f76cf/attachment-0005.sig>