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Clustering

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  • 21-09-2012 11:46am
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    Khannie
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    Any of you set up a cluster? What for? How did you find it?

    Just looking into the notion of a cluster for the usual reasons -> commodity hardware x 10 = MEGA. I get the impression that a beowulf cluster would probably require some kind of software rewrite though.


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    Khannie
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    Yeah, I'm more wondering if it's worth porting something that's compute intensive to use MPI based on the hardware savings. 100 euro CPU's are very powerful these days. For 10K you could have 100 fast cores and oodles and oodles of RAM in a cluster. That's attractive.


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    opus
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    Khannie wrote: »
    Any of you set up a cluster? What for? How did you find it?

    Not sure if you meant for HPC applications or not but I've set up a 200 mixed node cluster using the open source ROCKS s/w, it was straight forward enough.

    Don't use it personally but it's heavily used where I work.


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    ED E
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    http://helmer.sfe.se/

    Reminded me of this. Its old now(08 tech) but you could do the same with modern parts and a very modest budget. TDP wouldnt be too high either if you were conservative. Fun to build, but few would have use for it(I know a geologist who maps sections of the earth in crazy detail that would love one though).


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