[Beowulf] If I were specifying a new custer...

[Andrew Latham]

I know a lot of organizations that are further building out their walled
gardens and securing the interaction with the Internet instead of acting on
the Spectre/Vulndejour by switching vendor.

On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 9:43 AM Douglas Eadline <deadline at eadline.org>
wrote:

>
> Thanks for all the replies. I may write this up.
>
> One other pointed question.
>
> In general, how much has the Spectere/meltdown issue and Intel
> Fab issue effected your decisions of Intel vs AMD?
>
> Or are your decisions still based on performance/price/other
> benchmarks?
>
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> Doug
>
> > All:
> >
> > Over the last several months I have been reading about:
> >
> > 1) Spectre/meltdown
> > 2) Intel Fab issues
> > 3) Supermicro MB issues
> >
> > I started thinking, if I were going to specify a
> > single rack cluster, what would I use?
> >
> > I'm assuming a general HPC workload (not deep learning or
> > analytics) I need to choose Xeon/Epyc, IB/Omni,
> > Lustre/Ceph/BeGFS, should all nodes have GPU?
> >
> > I'm interested what members of this list think?
> >
> >
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> > Doug
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