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Linuxrock wrote: | Are Clusters and Grid Different and culd u suggest some good howto or such on supercomputers. | | _______________________________________________ | ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd | Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ | Grid Computing ~ This is the same concept as clustering, except that the nodes in the system can be separated by any distance, and they are not dedicated to the task running on the grid. Computers participating in a grid may also be used as desktop computers, for example, while nodes in a cluster are generally dedicated to the cluster, and are not used for other tasks. Grid computing has the potential for high performance at low cost. Multiple organizations could connect their clusters in a grid, making use of clusters that would otherwise be idle, while only paying for a fraction of the total computing power. Internet communications are much slower than a local network, however, and a dedicated cluster may be preferable to distributing a problem to various external sites.
Clustering ~ Clustering has many advantages. Clusters are easily scalable, because you can add additional computers to the cluster at any time. They can also be easy to set up quickly, because they can use readily available computers and other hardware. 3 One possible disadvantage of clusters is that some problems are difficult to distribute across multiple nodes. If the nodes have to communicate too much with other nodes in order to solve a problem, the nodes may be spending a significant portion of their time waiting for input from other nodes. - -- Regards Ritesh Agrawal -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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