> On 1 May 2013 04:32, Caio Freitas de Oliveira <[email protected]> > wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I'm completely new to all this beowulf thing. I've just now connected >>> my >>> 2 PCs using Heartbeat + Pacemaker, but I don't have a clue of how to >>> use >>> them as a single computer. > >> Single computer - maybe google "Single System Image". > > Very often, people come onto the Beowulf list with a very similar question > - they are excited by the possibilities > of ganging together cheap PCs to make a single powerful machine. I think > many people have asked this over the years, > and Caio is not alone. > I also think that a lot of the IT news stories don;t make the distinctions > clear, unless you are 'already in the business'. > They talk of Top500 clusters having (say) 20 Terabytes of memory, and > don't draw the distinction that this is distributed within a cluster. > > > So I say to Caio - pull up a chair, join us, and you will learn a lot. > As Andrew says, Google for SSI systems. Also look for the systems which > use high performance interconnects and RDMA to join machines together into > A single memory space. Yes, that needs hardware. > > Also let us steer you towards http://www.clustermonkey.net/
Also google for "HPC For Dummies" (2nd edition) a short overview of HPC clustering. There is no GPU coverage, but you will get a good overview of HPC concepts. -- Doug > > > > > The contents of this email are confidential and for the exclusive use of > the intended recipient. If you receive this email in error you should not > copy it, retransmit it, use it or disclose its contents but should return > it to the sender immediately and delete your copy. > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > -- > Mailscanner: Clean > -- Doug -- Mailscanner: Clean _______________________________________________ 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
