Re: SMP/HTT and Beowulf cluster on FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE
Kris Kennaway <[email protected]> Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:01:24 +0100
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Michael Stogsdill wrote: > Hey, I have a question that I can't seem to find a decent answer to. The mailing lists have had some similar topics, but they were mostly for the 6.x-RELEASE and other minor differences. > > Heres my situation; I'm trying to create a beowulf cluster running FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE consisting of 8 systems all running on Dual Xeon w/HTT both running at 2.8Gz. What exactly this system will be doing I can't say, so lets just think about the performance of the cluster running a benchmarking tool similar to sysbench. Because they are dual processor systems, I will be using the SMP kernel already, so I'm wondering if turning on HTT will help or hinder my Beowulf' performance. The cluster is not yet operational, otherwise I would do some tests myself! The answer is always "HTT performance depends on your workload. Try it and see if it helps". Kris _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-smp To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"