Hello, Say I don't have access to a actual cluster, yet I'm considering cloud compute solutions for my MPI program ultimately, but such a cost may be highly prohibitive at the moment. In terms of middle ground, if I am interesting in compute only, no storage, what are possible hardware solutions out there to deploy my MPI program? By no storage, I mean that my control linux box running the frontend of the program, but is also part of the mpi communicator always gathers all results and stores them locally. At the moment, I have a second box over ethernet.
I am looking at something like Intel Compute Stick (is it possible at all to buy a few, is linux running on them, the arch seems to be the same x86-64, is there a possible setup with tcp for those and have openmpi over tcp)? Is it more cost-effective to look at extra regular linux commodity boxes? If a no hard drive box is possible, can the executables of my MPI program sendable over the wire before running them? If we exclude GPU or other nonMPI solutions, and cost being a primary factor, what is progression path from 2boxes to a cloud based solution (amazon and the like...) Regards, MM
