Re: A Challenge for the Debianite Beowulfians

You should ask in the original beowulf list. Is has a much broader audience.

To answer your question someone must know the behavior of your application.

What are the network requirements? It needs a lots of  bandwidth? Very low
latency?
It needs a lot of memory per node?
Your application does many or few I/O operations?


There are some guides about cluster building here:
http://www.clustermonkey.net//content/category/5/14/32/


2007/9/11, Martin G Smith <[email protected]>:
>
> Hello – I have a challenge for the Debianite Beowulfians. You will find my
> Bias declared at – http://redsevenone.wordpress.com - and –
> http://mathnotmeth.wordpress.com - and can advise that the MATH Not METH
> movement has full funding [CDN $4.2 Million] in place for this project.
> ABSTRACT -  To create a Freestanding Core of 960 Processors using current
> technology in a rack formation. This unit will run all available Open
> Software and act as a library tasked to support the growing MATH Not METH
> network. This unit will include a RAID array of 32 TB.
> Please understand I am an analog human very much a hitch-hiker on the
> Highway of Light, who has found a way to capture the minds lost to the abyss
> that is Chrystal Meth.
>
> Best Regards
>
> Martin G. Smith Ph.D - Coordinator
> RedSeven Services - MATH Not METH
> ABOTA*-ONAMISSION
> [*A Bridge Over The Abyss]
>
> Each day, as we walk the byways and
> flash along the Highway of Light:
> There are those who are left
> standing, as the march to flight
> goes by some to stop and wonder
> at the enormous potential at what
> has been created:
>
> But others who are left, standing
> in a rut at the side of the road,
> a rut too soon to become an abyss.
>
> So Then? What to do?
> Have said before, too many times to count,
> yet shall say again, as often as need be,
> until there is clarity in the air:
>
> The time has come to put a fence at the top of the cliff
> instead of a net at the bottom:
> Thus giving a chance to build a bridge over the abyss,
> Or, too soon a grave
>
> MATH Not METH - http://redsevenone.wordpress.com/
>
>