[nycbug-talk] Lab environment

[Josh McCormack]

Sunny Dubey wrote:

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> Well, I spoke to a friend of mine.  He is a fellow Mandrake user, and he is 
> also the primary admin of one of the largest clusters in the world (USC).  
> He says the best way to test two different architectures for something like 
> this is by price.
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Would time also figure into this (time is money sort of thing...)? Time 
to setup, admin, etc. Maybe would be a good way of comparing "free" 
software that runs on the same hardware, in addition to performance.

Josh