[Beowulf] HPC in the cloud question

[Douglas Eadline]

> On 05/10/2015 02:47 PM, John Hearns wrote:
>> This article might be interesting:
>>
>> http://www.information-age.com/technology/data-centre-and-it-infrastructure/123459441/inside-uks-first-collaborative-data-centre
>>
>> As it says 'Data-centre-as-a-service'
>> A shared data centre, outside the centre of the city, used by several
>> research inistitutes and universities.
>> I have been involved in preparing bids for equipment there, including
>> the innovative eMedlab project.
>>
>
> Ugh. Can we please stop tacking 'as-a-service' on to everything these
> days? I'm starting to hate 'as-a-service' almost as much as 'cloud' and
> 'big data'. While I get the point he's trying to make. It's really just
> an off-site colocation facilty whose cost is shared between the
> different partner institutions.

So are you saying Nothing as-a-Service or NaaS (tm)
(I believe this is the Seinfeld Model)

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