John Hearns wrote: <snip> > Yes, a small Beowulf cluster will work very well with Gigabit Ethernet. > My advice would be to not use desktop type systems, > but to specify 1U chassis based server systems. > Server motherboards generally have two on-board gigabit ethernet ports. > You can use one port for the general cluster traffic and NFS mounts, > and the other one is dedicated to MPI traffic. Depends how small we're talking about. If we're talking Value Cluster 2K7, the purchasing goals are quite different.
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