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> to whom it may concern :
> my question is: will the p95 software run on a system of
> clusters??????
If you're asking if there's a cluster-aware version of Prime95, the
answer is no. Because of the nautre of the error checking done on the
server, there is no need to provide failover of the service. Nor is
there a need to have two coordinated processes running on each node to
increase performance - each node can run a copy of P95 independently,
testing different exponents while maintaining the maximum performance
possible.
You can use prime95 on a cluster by running a separate copy on each
node, and you'll get all the performance your hardware can provide. If
your particular cluster architecture requires "mirror image" execution
and file-systems, then you'll have a problem, because both nodes will
perform exactly the same prime95 computations, and you'll get the same
performance as a single machine.
Regards,
Ryan
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