-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Matt,
I think your question is being answered negatively in the Beowulf FAQ but here is my a bit more improved offering. The answer is "yes" or "no" all depending on the application. Some examples: 1) you're doing mem/cpu intensive stuff: .. the answer is probably no, price/performance wise... 2) you're doing some parallel disk op that doesn't require much communication: it may be worth it. On Saturday 07 July 2001 18:06, Matt Fair wrote: > I was thinking, if you were to have 2 100 MHZ computers, would it > perform just as good as a 200 MHZ, or is there performance increase due > to having multiple processors? On a large scale, would it be worth > having 200 100 MHZ computers, or would I just be wasting floor space and > should get a better processor to use in a cluster? > I have not put together any clusters before, but I was just wondering if > people have thought about this and tested it. > Thanks, > Matt - -- Eray Ozkural (exa) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo GPG public key fingerprint: 360C 852F 88B0 A745 F31B EA0F 7C07 AE16 874D 539C -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7R0+pfAeuFodNU5wRAvgiAJ4urdN7KaBcVChzNhYoXobfstdFJwCgpz+O UiXEvDslZqWQYcDh3YDx1Wo= =2j+Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
