I want to initiate a project involving a beowulf cluster. I have two engineers who are VERY interested.
what kinds of things do they do?
Anyway. I was wondering what would be a "decent" amount of equipment to start off and the preferred linux if any.
I've run full-scale cluster environments on my laptop ;) I think I would not bother to set up anything less than 4-ish nodes.
I was thinking 4 pentiums with dual gig processors. Ram would be a gig or more.
you probably don't mean pentiums (P5, followon from the P4, _soo_ fin de siecle) I find that 2GB/core covers most parallel apps. 1G/core is a bit tight, though there are a substantial number of serial apps (or embarassingly parallel) at a measly 5-50 MB. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
