Tim Cutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> I've heard of people making clusters out of Alphas running Linux > before - can't remember where, but I did see someone had done it. I used to have a 9 node DS10 cluster running linux. Replaced it ages ago with a 20 node Athlon MP 2200+ cluster. Each replacement node was faster for the sorts of code we run here (integer heavy, BLAST etc.) than the DS10 nodes. And that was years ago. An Opteron or Core Duo would be scads faster yet. Which is a long winded way of saying it probably doesn't make sense to build a cluster of Alpha's these days, no matter which OS you use. That said, the one thing that was quite nice about the DS10s was that they held their value very well. In fact, about half the price of the replacement cluster was obtained by selling the DS10s. Now this was before the Alphacide, and it was a long time ago, but it may still be that there is a market for the pile of Alphas the original poster has on hand, in which case the best course is probably to sell those machines and buy as many modern x86 machines as possible with the proceeds. Regards, David Mathog [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
