im impressed with the different views everyone has. i dont know how many of you would agree with me a multicore processor lets say a quad is 4 nodes in one. could one say it like that?
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Nifty Tom Mitchell <[email protected]>wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 09:46:07PM +0200, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > > > > is it possible to have a single multicored machine as a cluster? > > A single machine with multiple cores can act like a small but worthy > cluster. In fact it can also do fun stuff like OpenMP. > > You can run Open MPI now and have a batch system > running in the background. With quad core it > almost makes sense to have three cores in the > MPI batch queue leaving one core for 'interactive' use. > > Ignoring the batch system a dual core processor makes it > interesting to locally develop and debug MPI codes. Future quad+ > core processors will be even more interesting. One of > the difficulties with clustering is the "on ramp" or > learning curve. A modern dual core laptop is a worthy development > tool for both MPI and OpenMP. > > The important point is understanding what > a "cluster solves" for you. A Beowulf point > might be "how to muster a pile of inexpensive > networked boxes to the work load of a group or problem space". > > > > -- > T o m M i t c h e l l > Found me a new hat, now what? > > -- Jonathan Aquilina
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