COMMODITY HARDWARE & SOFTWARE
Stephen Wolbers, Fermilab
Summary Talk Commodity Hardware
and Software
Outline
Introduction
Session G
Session G
Session G
Commodity Computing (official charge)
Commodity (definition from the dictionary)
What is Driving This?
Look at cost/MIP instead
Market Forces
What Else is Driving This?
Hardware and Software
Hardware and Software
A major issue (maybe)
PP Presentation
LINUX
NT
Methods of Work are Changing How do
we adjust to them?
Example
PC Administration
PC Administration
PC Farms
PC Farms
PC Farms
PC Farms
Compiler/Physics Issues
Conclusions
