Hi, I'm really a newbee, but I can suggest you to have a look at http://lcic.org/documentation.html and expecially at beowulf FAQs on http://www.beowulf.org/overview/faq.html
I think the question you have to ask (mainly to yourself :) is: What do I need? Which kind of application I have to / I need to run? Does your application really need a parallel computer? (and off course, how much can I spend?:-)) If you are playing around with a 20Gigabyte footprint application maybe you need a beowulf (or a good 64bit workstation). If your problem is "time", there are several level of optimization, so you can speedup your app simply recompiling it with a good compiler (portland suite, or intel compiler if you are on x86) achieving considerable performance without introducing parallel skills into your code. Anyway, as a rule of thumb, you need 100% funding, in which 50% is hardware, and 50% are human resources (you or someone other that will optimize and partially rewrite your apps) bye ivan Alle Tuesday 4 January 2005 18:53, Arlo Aude ha scritto: > Hi, I'm just beginning to learn about these Beowulf clusters and have no > idea of what they can do. > <> Is it possible to run an existing application, like oh, say run > MineSweeper on one of these clusters? > <>Or, would you have to re-write MineSweeper to take advantage of the > additional nodes? > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues > Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. > It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users -- ______________________ www.bio.dist.unige.it +39 010 353.2789 (tel) +39 010 353.2948 (fax) ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
