Comments on: Commodity Infiniband http://blog.cosmix.org/2009/11/12/commodity-infiniband/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:38:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: cosmix http://blog.cosmix.org/2009/11/12/commodity-infiniband/comment-page-1/#comment-25099 cosmix Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:49:05 +0000 http://blog.cosmix.org/?p=1935#comment-25099 @adamo: Designing it was great fun; I got to read up on lots of interesting stuff, see (and test) great technology up close and talk to knowledgeable people; but, still, I wish I could've secured the funds to actually build it too! In any case, as I write in the article above, good technology is becoming increasingly cheaper to acquire, and software has moved on; in fact, even in 2004 we were considering PlanetLab as an alternative and today, with cloud computing services becoming the norm for an ever-increasing number of applications (even scientific ones) you get many more choices at a significantly reduced cost. The fun may be gone --- I know --- but you can do so much more than you could five years ago! =) @adamo: Designing it was great fun; I got to read up on lots of interesting stuff, see (and test) great technology up close and talk to knowledgeable people; but, still, I wish I could’ve secured the funds to actually build it too!

In any case, as I write in the article above, good technology is becoming increasingly cheaper to acquire, and software has moved on; in fact, even in 2004 we were considering PlanetLab as an alternative and today, with cloud computing services becoming the norm for an ever-increasing number of applications (even scientific ones) you get many more choices at a significantly reduced cost. The fun may be gone — I know — but you can do so much more than you could five years ago! =)

]]> By: adamo http://blog.cosmix.org/2009/11/12/commodity-infiniband/comment-page-1/#comment-25098 adamo Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:31:03 +0000 http://blog.cosmix.org/?p=1935#comment-25098 At least you got to design your own, whereas I couldn't make (the key) people in NTUA think about such a possibility :( At least you got to design your own, whereas I couldn’t make (the key) people in NTUA think about such a possibility :(

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