On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 11:10:50AM +0000, John Hearns wrote: > Vincent, > I cannot answer all of your questions. > I have a couple of answers: > > Regarding MPI, you will be looking for OpenMPI > > You will need a subnet manager running somewhere on the fabric. > These can either run on the switch or on a host. > If you are buying this equipment from eBay I would imagine you will be > running the Open Fabrics subnet manager > on a host on your cluster, rather than on a switch. > I might be wrong - depends if the switch has a SM license.
Assuming ebay-sourced equipment, what price tag are we roughly looking at, per node, assuming small (8-16 nodes) cluster sizes? -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
