normally according to moores law new technology is released every 18 months. right now there are the i7's which have just been released.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Toon Moene <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:toon@moene.org">toon@moene.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Douglas Eadline wrote:<br>
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Fellow HPC types:<br>
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I have been running a micro-poll over at<br>
Linux Magazine asking about how the<br>
economy has effected your 2009 plans.<br>
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A (somewhat) related question.<br>
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In December 2007 I bought a quad core home PC (actually, if you go by the labels on it, it's meant for teenagers to store their pirated^H^H^H^H^Hdownloaded movies and songs on).<br>
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It functions perfectly for running test versions (top-of-trunk) of our Weather Forecasting code, using Debian testing, Open-MPI and GNU Fortran on the grid we used until October 2006 operationally at the Dutch Weather Service.<br>
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Normally, I would retire this machine end-of-2010 (3 years is a reasonable time period for the economic viability of a computer).<br>
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However, I haven't seen any progress in capabilities in home computers in the past 14 months (other than that most are now sold *standard* with 4 Gbyte - apparently 64-bit Vista is now a "working" option).<br>
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So what I'm thinking of is to replace it in 2010-2011 with a blade solution.<br>
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But I have no idea how to price these things. If I want to spend roughly the same amount of money I spent on this home machine (1000-1200 Euros), what can I expect ?<br>
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Thanks for you insight ...<br><font color="#888888">
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</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Jonathan Aquilina<br>