Hi, there,
First let me salute your dedicated contribution to the beowulf society.
Especially I, a newcomer, have benefitted huge from your online resource and
your QAs.
I am thinking of building a Beowulf of 17 dual-core nodes, one head node and
16 computation nodes for material research simulation. I am also a newcomer to
the simulation world, but I have some programming experience (no parellel
programming), knowledge of Unix operating system and a few shell scripting
experience. Equipped with your resorce, I think I can build a new Beowulf.
A few questions.
1. Is Myrinet expandable?
I mean, if at first, I buy Myrinet for 16 nodes, should I buy more if I add
more nodes to the Beowulf?
2. When you do Monte-carlo or simulation, do you use commercial software like
MCNPX or Geant4? Which MD simulation and first principle package
would you recommend? Will it be good to install them all in one Beowulf?
I am looking forward to your guide.
Sincerely,
Rundong Wan
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