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p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div style="font-family:Arial;">Enabling local manufacturing using CAD and additive manufacturing may be helpful. <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">Machine learning applications such as voice recognition, image recognition and recommendation systems might also be interesting. For example one could improve library catalog search.<br></div><div id="sig16053297"><div class="signature"><br></div></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div>On Sat, Feb 22, 2020, at 10:54 AM, John Hearns via Beowulf wrote:<br></div><blockquote id="qt" type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thinking about the applications to be run at a community college, the concept of a local weather forecast has been running around in my head lately.<br></div><div>The concept would be to install and run WRF, perhaps overnight, and produce a weather forecast in the morning.<br></div><div>I suppose this hinges on WRF having a sufficiently small scale for local forecasting and on being able to download <br></div><div>input data every day.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Your thoughts please?<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div class="qt-gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="qt-gmail_attr">On Sat, 22 Feb 2020 at 03:43, Douglas Eadline <<a href="mailto:deadline@eadline.org">deadline@eadline.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="qt-gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-color:rgb(204, 204, 204);border-left-style:solid;border-left-width:1px;padding-left:1ex;"><div><br></div><div>That is the idea behind the Limulus systems -- a personal (or group) small<br></div><div>turn-key cluster that can deliver local HPC performance.<br></div><div>Users can learn HPC software, administration, and run production<br></div><div>codes on performance hardware.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I have been calling these "No Data Center Needed"<br></div><div>computing systems (or as is now the trend "Edge" computing).<br></div><div>These systems have a different power/noise/heat envelope<br></div><div>than a small pile of data center servers (i.e. you can use<br></div><div>them next to your desk, in a lab or classroom, at home etc.)<br></div><div><br></div><div>Performance is optimized to fit in an ambient power/noise/heat<br></div><div>envelope. Basement Supercomputing recently started shipping<br></div><div>updated systems with uATX blades and 65W Ryzen processors<br></div><div>(with ECC), more details are on the data sheet (web page not<br></div><div>updated to new systems just yet)<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.basement-supercomputing.com/download/limulus-data-sheets/Limulus_ALL.pdf" rel="noreferrer">https://www.basement-supercomputing.com/download/limulus-data-sheets/Limulus_ALL.pdf</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Full disclosure, I work with Basement Supercomputing.<br></div><div><br></div><div>--<br></div><div>Doug<br></div><div><br></div><div>><br></div><div>> Is there a role for a modest HPC cluster at the community college?<br></div><div>><br></div><div>> _______________________________________________<br></div><div>> Beowulf mailing list, <a href="mailto:Beowulf@beowulf.org">Beowulf@beowulf.org</a> sponsored by Penguin Computing<br></div><div>To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit<br></div><div>> <a href="https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf" rel="noreferrer">https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf</a><br></div><div>><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>--<br></div><div>Doug<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div>Doug<br></div><div><br></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>Beowulf mailing list, <a href="mailto:Beowulf@beowulf.org">Beowulf@beowulf.org</a> sponsored by Penguin Computing<br></div><div>To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit <a href="https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf" rel="noreferrer">https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf</a><br></div></blockquote></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing<br></div><div>To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf<br></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div></body></html>