Research tasks require computing power, from PCs to supercomputers. What do you use in your work:
(a) my own PC/workstation is sufficient
(b) my group owns a computing facility (cluster, farm, pool etc)
(c) my group uses a facility provided by the lab/institute/university
(d) my group has an allocation at a national facility
(e) my group uses Grid or Cloud resources provided for free by other colleagues
(f) my group has funds to purchase time from commercial providers (Amazon etc)
(g) other (please elaborate)
(B) Our group operates it's own Map Reduce Cluster Consisting of 48 x Cores running Fedora Linux with the DISCO MapReduce Framework. While each system is equipped with 2TB of storage, we have 2 additional nodes in the cluster each with 18TB of storage. This is not the largest cluster but it suits our needs. We typically process around 6billion strings of JSON data in a 15 hour period with it.
Usually (a), often (b) Grid Appliance and (e) with Cloudera installed
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