On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Mathew Shember wrote:
Hello all,
A brand new noob entering this realm.
I want to initiate a project involving a beowulf cluster. I have two
engineers who are VERY interested.
Anyway. I was wondering what would be a "decent" amount of equipment to
start off and the preferred linux if any.
I know the basic answer is "it depends" on the app.
I am just wondering what is a reasonable amount of computers to allocate for
playing around.
I was thinking 4 pentiums with dual gig processors. Ram would be a gig or
more.
That would be fine. I tend to recommend around 8 processors to be able
to see elementary Amdahlian scaling for various trial/toy programs. You
can get by with as few as two to demonstrate the principles, but 8 is
definitely good.
rgb
Thanks for reading this.
Back to reading the links.....
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