From beowulf Thu Nov 24 07:19:04 2005 From: Roland Krause Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 07:19:04 +0000 To: beowulf Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Why I want a microsoft cluster... Message-Id: <20051124071904.17844.qmail () web80402 ! mail ! yahoo ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=beowulf&m=113304464902501 Bah, in the future you will buy a "cluster appliance" 128 blades each with 4 800Mhz Dual Core Opterons connected with IB, or 10GE or whatever, all contained in 4 4U units for 100k or less. You push the thing on and it runs < your application name here > At 100k there is no room for paying Bill G's 59 bucks per node. Think NAS and you get the idea... Plus you don't need anybody to maintain this thingie either. Looked at Linux lately - it basically installs itself, it maintains itself - so what do you want? Besides - Windows admins are cheap indeed, but they are too busy to remove spyware and pr0n from your boss' box so when the image needs scaled they will call you and make you scale it... Roland Sorry - original post snipped... --- Jim Lux wrote: _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf