[Beowulf] HPC Market Question

[Jon Aquilina]

normally according to moores law new technology is released every 18 months.
right now there are the i7's which have just been released.

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Toon Moene <toon at moene.org> wrote:

> Douglas Eadline wrote:
>
>  Fellow HPC types:
>>
>> I have been running a micro-poll over at
>> Linux Magazine asking about how the
>> economy has effected your 2009 plans.
>>
>
> A (somewhat) related question.
>
> 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).
>
> 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.
>
> Normally, I would retire this machine end-of-2010 (3 years is a reasonable
> time period for the economic viability of a computer).
>
> 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).
>
> So what I'm thinking of is to replace it in 2010-2011 with a blade
> solution.
>
> 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 ?
>
> Thanks for you insight ...
>
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Jonathan Aquilina
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