From: Ajasja Ljubetič (ajasja.ljubetic_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Feb 14 2013 - 02:39:06 CST
Hi,
Last time I checked (3 years ago) it was much cheaper to build your own. I
had a lot of fun building my own 10k cluster. If you throw in some GPUs
you can get impressive performance. My only regret is that I could really
use the two/three months I spend for this now (toward the end of my PHD).
For example 3 months of a Quadruple Extra Large GPU costs ~4500$ for which
you can buy your own (and it will last at least a year).
Regards,
Ajasja
On 14 February 2013 08:30, Norman Geist <norman.geist_at_uni-greifswald.de>wrote:
> Hi,****
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> Just for my interest, wouldnt it be more comfortable to spend the money
> in some own hardware, where you can have physical access? Distributing
> computations to any cloud network sounds unreliable and complicated.
> Additionally, why not get an account for a high performance computing
> centre? This AWS stuff dont seem to be meant for long time full load
> usage.****
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> But 1st of all, what are you going to do with namd. How big will your
> systems be. If we know some detail, we can better advice you. Maybe some
> local GPUs will do the job for you.****
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> Norman Geist.****
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> *Von:* owner-namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu [mailto:owner-namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu] *Im
> Auftrag von *Cloud Computing
> *Gesendet:* Mittwoch, 13. Februar 2013 23:05
> *An:* namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> *Betreff:* namd-l: running NAMD on Amazon EC2?****
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> Dear all,****
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> Does anyone have experience running NAMD on Amazon web service? I created
> an Amazon machine image for NAMD on single node setting (you can locate it
> by searching for namd in AWS public ami) , but it'd be nice to learn how to
> run NAMD jobs on a cluster setting on AWS. So if anyone has relevant
> experience or interests and would like to share, let's have a discussion.
> ****
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> Jaycee Chan****
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> Research Scientist at UW****
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