[Beowulf] Intro question

[Peter St. John]

Vincent,
All the guys I know, myself, in finance, started in mathematics. Including
one Cole medal logician.  I'm sure there are some chemists and physicists
who got into finance also. I did myself, that was what sucked me into
software engineering long ago. we don't necessarily lose our theoretical
interests.
Peter

On 12/4/08, Vincent Diepeveen <diep at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
>
> On Dec 3, 2008, at 8:25 AM, malcolm croucher wrote:
>
>  Its gonna be used for computational chemisty , not academic but more
>> private / entrepreneurship. I been doing a lot of research in this area for
>> a while and was hoping to do some more on my own.
>>
>>
> That's most interesting, if i google for your name i just get hits in the
> financial world. How's that possible?
>
> Vincent
>
>  On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:11 AM, Robert G. Brown <rgb at phy.duke.edu> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Lombard, David N wrote:
>>
>> An acoustic concern. A 1U is quite a bit louder than the normal desktop as
>> (1) they use itty-bitty fans and (b) there's no incentive to make them
>> quiet, as nobody is expected to have to put up with their screaming...
>>
>> A good point.  I actually like Greg's suggestion best -- consider
>> (fewer) 2U nodes instead -- quieter, more robust, cooler.  Perhaps four,
>> but that strongly depends on the kind of thing you are trying to do --
>> tell us what it is if you can do so without having to kill and we'll try
>> to help you estimate your communications issues and likely bottlenecks.
>> For some tasks you are best off getting as few actual boxes as possible
>> with as many as possible CPU cores per box.  For others, having more
>> boxes and fewer cores per box will be right.
>>
>> The reason I like four nodes with at least a couple of cores each is
>> that if you don't KNOW what you are likely to need, you can find out
>> (probably) with this many nodes and then "fix" your design if/when you
>> scale up into production.  Otherwise you buy eight single core node (if
>> they still make single cores:-) and then learn that you would have been
>> much better off buying a single eight core node.  Or vice versa.
>>
>>  rgb
>>
>>
>> --
>> David N. Lombard, Intel, Irvine, CA
>> I do not speak for Intel Corporation; all comments are strictly my own.
>> _______________________________________________
>> Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org
>> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit
>> http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
>>
>>
>> Robert G. Brown                            Phone(cell): 1-919-280-8443
>> Duke University Physics Dept, Box 90305
>>
>> Durham, N.C. 27708-0305
>> Web: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb <http://www.phy.duke.edu/%7Ergb>
>> Book of Lilith Website: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Lilith/Lilith.php<http://www.phy.duke.edu/%7Ergb/Lilith/Lilith.php>
>> Lulu Bookstore: http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=877977
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Malcolm A.B Croucher
>> _______________________________________________
>> Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org
>> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit
>> http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org
> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit
> http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://www.scyld.com/pipermail/beowulf/attachments/20081204/7379f5d3/attachment.html