[Beowulf] Re: Cooling vs HW replacement

[David Mathog]

> On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Robert G. Brown	wrote

> 
> > > 	2. higher reliability - typically 1.2-1.4M hours, and usually 
> > > 	specified under higher load. 

<SNIP>
 
> Has anyone observed that a megahour is 114 years?  Has anyone observed
> that this is so ludicrous a figure as to be totally meaningless?  Show
> me a single disk on the planet that will run, under load, for a mere two
> decades and I'll bow down before it and start sacrificing chickens.

ROTFLMAO

David Mathog
mathog at caltech.edu
Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech