I've found this Mogran Kaufmann Publishers, Inc. book by Peter S. Pacheco in my University's Computational Mathematics Club. It's (c) 1997, but I figure it should still be mostly relevant. Has anyone else read this, and/or have some comments on it's validity/applicability?
So far, the only thing I've been disappointed with is this sole reference to Beowulfery that I could find in Chapter 2, under the headings Distributed Memory MIMD, and "Bus-based Networks" where they say: "The last, and probably the simplest, network is a bus. A cluster of workstations on an ethernet provides a popular example. Of course, busses tend to be fairly slow, and even worse, busses, especially ethernets, soon become saturated if there are more than a few nodes or more than absolutely minimal communication. Thus, although they are very useful for program development, currently available bus-based system don't show much promise for very large-scale applications." This paragraph sounds a little dated to me. Isn't Ethernet more prevalent than that? _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
