Toasting Freedom: Trading Choice for Convenience
The growth of clustered HPC is do in part to the freedom to choose (and toasters).
I’m taking a short detour from HPC this week. The following resulted from an email discussion between some of the Linux Magazine writers and publisher. The topic was closed vs. open products. This issue definitely effects HPC because the current market has been built on an open framework that supports the freedom to choose. As technology progress accelerates, these issues become more and more important. To make my point, we have to venture into the world of kitchen alliances.
Consider toasters. They toast. If my toaster stops toasting I may try to fix it, take it to the repair shop, or throw it away because the repair cost is almost as much as new toaster (funny how that works out). I own the toaster, however. I have the freedom to decide what to do with it. I can toast what I want, when I want, and how I want. Truth…
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