[Beowulf] Servers Too Hot? Intel Recommends a Luxurious Oil Bath

[Vincent Diepeveen]

There is thousands of traders in each nation and they all have a  
datacenter that is doing simulations on how to make money.
Most traders are at several exchanges.

A single tad larger trader typically has a 3000 machines and they're  
all equipped with a highspeed network.

As slowly trader by trader is simply getting kicked bigtime by the  
traders that do have those 3000+ machines in their own datacenter,
one by one they are all setting up their own calculation centers with  
more machines to do those simulations figuring out whether their
package, based upon previous data, can make them big cash tomorrow on  
the exchanges.

In most nations the high frequency traders will have the majority of  
the HPC hardware. More than government.

On Sep 10, 2012, at 12:08 PM, holway at th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de wrote:

> http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/index.html
>
> High Frequency Trading is actually a tiny amount of the world wide
> computer power. Far far less than HPC. This kit tends to be located
> very close to the exchange anyway. and is generally uninteresting in
> terms of green IT.
>
> I recently met with one of the technical directors of Deutsch Börse
> which is the major central european stock exchange.. They are just
> moving their central trading platform from some VMS clustery thing
> (before my time) to a Intel / Infiniband / RedHat cluster of no more
> than 200 nodes of which about half were gateway nodes (with interface
> cards for external connections to the finance houses). Its all small
> time stuff.
>
> So please cease debasing these discussions with 'Iceland will never
> have datacenters because you cant use it for HFT". Thou speaks from
> thyne arse :) HFT is far smaller than HPC which is tiny anyway.
>
> Latency generally doesn't matter. I can ping www.whitehouse.gov in
> 30ms. www.number10.gov.uk in 23ms and, kinda ironically, 43ms for
> www.berlin.de (I live in Berlin).
>
> Also, really, this oil bath stuff will never happen in the main
> stream. Some procurement process with buy it because of the numbers
> and then regret it for all time in a semi public way. Then we can all
> forget it and get on with what we have always been doing; stealing
> partitions from the office to direct the hot air out of the door that
> we have propped open with a chair.
>
> I think most of us have had to replace all of the memory in our shiny
> new cluster at some time or some other annoying task that involves
> taking out every node and doing something annoying with a screwdriver
> and that sharp edge that kept slicing under your thumb nail. I
> actually nearly chopped of the tip of my finger on a 9000RPM fan. It
> was not a neat wound.
>
> Image doing that in rubber gloves with everything covered in goop.  
> Brilliant.
>
> ta for now.
>
> Andrew
>
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>> On 05/09/12 23:14, Robert G. Brown wrote:
>>
>>> I don't think they even bother with a proper enclosure per
>>> motherboard.  Over the counter, commodity, cheap, almost hardware
>>> agnostic.
>>
>> A Google talk I went to a few years back confirmed that's the case  
>> (or
>> rather, lack of a case IYSWIW) for their nodes in their search
>> clusters, but they did make the point they use more standard hardware
>> for the services they make money from (like advertising) to get  
>> better
>> reliability.
>>
>> Whether that's still the case, I don't know.
>>
>> cheers!
>> Chris
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>>  Christopher Samuel        Senior Systems Administrator
>>  VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative
>>  Email: samuel at unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545
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