On 18/06/07, Mike Tewner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You can probably buy a small cluster (4 or 8 machines?) for 45k. Then, use a shared memory system (ccNUMA maybe?)
We'd rather not spend that much money on hardware, but I'm intrigued - I though that ccNUMA is just a way for parallel computers with obscene amounts of CPU's or and/or memory to share memory among themselves - are you suggesting that it's practical to buy a few physically separate boxes and connect them together in a ccNUMA "array"? In other words, are you referring to what's described in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CcNUMA#NUMA_vs._cluster_computing ? Have you seen it done successfully? Cheers, --Amos ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
