On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 04:25:40PM -0400, Patrick Geoffray wrote: > > I just hope this will be picked up by an academic that can convince > vendors to donate. Tax break is usually a good incentive for that :-) >
How much care should be given to the selection of the nodes? Performance is a function of both the nodes and the interconnect - so while your test cluster allows for direct comparisons of the interconnects it's only for a cluster of AMD processors, or for Intel processors. I could imagine there would be academic sites that would host this thing, and possibly even spring for the nodes, provided that the interconnects were donated and they got to use it when it's not in use (and probably had some promise that no more than X% of the time would the cluster be in "benchmark" mode) -Erik, not legally authorized to volunteer the University of Wisconsin to host any such thing. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
