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Talking Grads out of Buying Their Own Cluster

Proposed by Marc Ramsey

Notes

questions to students
1. educate early
2. Needs
3. flexibility
4. scale
5. safety
Reasons not to Run your own cluster
1. Facilities
2. impacting networks
3. security
4. scale
Problems
1. Facilities.
2. Security
3. Long term viability
4. Setting things up and leaving
5. entropy
6. lifecycle control
Solutions
1. compartmentalize.
2. cloud
3. virtualization
4. small clusters (virtualization)