Csepp 🌢Mar 24
Is there such a thing as high-performance #permacomputing ?  
On one hand, HPC implies centralization. On the other hand, some important tasks like weather prediction or build farms benefit everyone and require centralized infrastructure.
Show threadHumberto Ortiz ZuazagaMar 24
@csepp I run a 10+ year old linux cluster for my university. I know of another site that runs a cluster that was donated to them when the first owner decommissioned it. But the power, cooling, and infrastructure for these clusters is totally unsustainable.

There was a cluster called Green Destiny, built out of laptop-class mobile CPUs that ran at ambient temperature and much lower power, but the concept never caught on.

I think stuff like HTCondor or BOINC might be more amenable to permacomputing, use idle resources to run small jobs for researchers. Compute can follow available power, as long as the network is up.
Show thread~sejo 🐌

@azul @csepp see also reCluster:

Conceptualising Resources-aware Higher Education Digital Infrastructure through Self-hosting: a Multi-disciplinary View

> we detail the architecture of a low-impact data centre made of upcycled hardware and resource-aware software.

https://doi.org/10.21428/bf6fb269.8b989f2c
(2022 paper in #LIMITS)

Conceptualising Resources-aware Higher Education Digital Infrastructure through Self-hosting: a Multi-disciplinary View

Computing within Limits
Apr 6 at 12:21pmWeb
Show threadCsepp 🌢23h ago
@sejo @azul Oooh, is this the one our Lorenzo is involved in? I tried looking it up but couldn't find it.