Steve Jones is currently the technology operations manager at the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University. Steve designed and administered a Top 500 Supercomputer and speaks regularly about the design and management of High Performance Computing Clusters, most recently as a keynote speaker at the annual Rocks-a-Palooza conference at the San Diego Supercomputing Center. His free time is spent with his significant other, Leilani, far away from a keyboard. More information about Steve can be found at http://www.hpcclusters.org.
After building a number of clusters from the ground up -including one that
made it to the Top500 Supercomputer list - I decided to try a service that
many vendors now offer - having a system racked and stacked at the factory
then shipped to us. Such a service saves a huge amount of time, not to
mention my back, not having to build the cluster and cable all the equipment
together. I've been a fan of well-cabled systems and have found the quality
control to be acceptable. The key component is the pre-build requirements and
verification before the system is built. This will ensure the system shipped
is what is expected when it arrives at your front door. There can still be a
fair amount of cabling that has to be done once it arrives, if you have a
multi-rack configuration,... (more)
Steve Jones is currently the technology operations manager at the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University. Steve designed and administered a Top 500 Supercomputer and speaks regularly about the design and management of High Performance Computing Clusters, most recently as a keynote speaker at the annual Rocks-a-Palooza conference at the San Diego Supercomputing Center. His free time is spent with his significant other, Leilani, far away from a keyboard. More information about Steve can be found at http://www.hpcclusters.org.
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