> Oh, wait, 12 nodes. Hmm. That's cheating! unfortunately, we haven't been able to run the inferno grid stuff on any more than about 300 nodes. it works fairly quickly on that number, but task takeup slows down considerably when it's pumping out a lot of data (this is better now that nodes cache data).
things are slowed down quite a bit by logging constraints (it stores much on-going data on disk, both to reduce memory consumption and so that if the server crashes or is turned off, things can resume with virtually nothing lost). running on top of a ram disk can speed things up by at least an order of magnitude. this probably makes sense for short-lived jobs. i'd love to try it out on a larger cluster (one could use an existing scheduler to leverage the initial installation).
