Cloud Computing: Resistance is Pointless - Cloud Computing is the future of computing but resistance is high due to the presumed lack of control and ownership. These jitters will pass. [Linux_mag clusters]

I used a Tyan Personal Supercomputer for about a year to get into the swing of things. I really needed the ability to reboot the thing from time to time; to re-install the whole thing when I cocked-up (olny 16 nodes), etc. However, one I gottit, I felt that I would be best served that a professional sys-admin takes over. This was framed by the fact that I needed more CPU grunt, and it seemed to me that doubling the CPU's lead to considerably more than double the sys admin.

I am using sys admin as shorthand for all the paraphernalia of big systems - requirements gathering, testing, backups, thinking about cooling, etc.

Therefore the following survey is of considerable interest to me.
Inside HPC: Personal Supercomputing Survey Results -

The polls are closed, the results are in and the votes from Florida have been reviewed.  We officially had sixty-one people respond to our survey on desktop supercomputing.  Sparked by recent product releases from Cray and SiCortex, John West and I were increasingly curious what the HPC market thought of such a computing paradigm?  Would these Top500 miniatures stand up to the industry criticism?  Why don’t we analyze the results.

IEEE Spectrum: Powering the Large Hadron ColliderBy Sally Adee

Powering the Large Hadron Collider By Sally Adee
First Published September 2008
When the LHC starts up tomorrow, it will draw twice the power of nearby Geneva

BIG DRAW: It is estimated that the Large Hadron Collider, the biggest physics experiment in history, will use 1000 gigawatt-hours of electricity in 2009.
9 September 2008—The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), set to start up tomorrow, is the largest physics experiment in history, and it’s probably the most power hungry. Spanning the border between Switzerland and France, the 27-kilometer accelerator ring with its accompaniment of radiation-hardened integrated circuits, feeder accelerators, computers, and supercooled superconducting magnets will, according to varying estimates, draw between 220 and 300 megawatts of electricity—enough to power the city of Geneva twice over. Keeping the power flowing reliably takes a good bit of ingenuity, as a sudden loss of power could mean serious damage to the machine and months of lost work.

Tech Insiders Webinar Series - 10/14/2008

The Brightest Minds Discussing the Biggest Topics
Going Parallel In Image Processing Using MATLAB and Python
Tuesday, Oct 14, 2008
2:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM PT / 18:00 GMT (Duration: 1 hour)

In this Webinar, learn how Star-P lets engineers, scientists, and researchers write applications on desktop computers using MATLAB and Python, and run them interactively on multiprocessor servers or HPC clusters. Interactive Supercomputing will share insights on how to eliminate the need to re-program applications in C, FORTRAN or MPI languages in order to achieve production performance.

I have been using a Mozilla Firefox ScribeFire to blog. Check it out - it works quite wwell. There is a problem in that I would rather blogs were your thoughts - and articels you saw were pages, but lets see what comes out.