ski,
these things ar epretty idiosyncratic but all my recent compute
clusters
have been Dell-based. our latest were RS-710s and we have found Dell
switches cheap and adequate for these clusters.
On Feb 10, 2010, at 3:14 PM, Ski Kacoroski wrote:
Hi,
I have been asked to recommend a small compute cluster for a small
software firm (they support the R statistics language) and am hoping
that some of the experts on these lists can help me with ideas and let
me know of pitfalls to avoid. The basic requirements are:
1. 5 nodes. Would like to be have option to expand number of nodes if
not too costly
2. each node needs 500GB local disk space, 4 cores, 2.5GHz or better,
8GB ram.
3. need to have cluster be dual boot between windows HPC and linux
RHEL5.
4. a controlling node that can be switched between linux and
windows to
control the cluster. Perhaps run a hypervisor on this and have both
controllers running at the same time?
5. Possibly some shared space. They do not know yet if shared
space is
useful for a compute cluster.
6. A switch to hook it all together.
I appreciate your ideas on what to get, where to get it, what
pitfalls I
need to look out for.
cheers,
ski
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Chris "Ski" Kacoroski, [email protected], 206-501-9803
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