[Beowulf] General cluster management tools - Re: Southampton engineers a Raspberry Pi Supercomputer

[Leif Nixon]

Andrew Holway <andrew.holway at gmail.com> writes:

> Your saying that open source software is somehow less risky than
> proprietary software. I dont see any evidence for this.

But it is!

Through the years, I have been screwed n times by commercial vendors
saying "No, we will not sell you our proprietary solution anymore. We
are discontinuing it. We don't want your money". And I have been stuck.

I have never experienced the same with open source. In the OSS world, it
is more likely than not that somebody else will take over the project.
And even if that doesn't happen, you can alway pay somebody to do the
support you need.

-- 
Leif Nixon - Security officer
National Supercomputer Centre - Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing
Nordic Data Grid Facility - European Grid Infrastructure