Mark Hahn wrote:
Does anyone have any experience with SiCortex machines? Any thoughts?
They look cool and they don't use much power but I wonder how they
compare to blade type systems.
eh? blade systems are just tweaks for packaging and cable-management.
I don't believe they have much if any advantage over well-designed
non-blade hardware. or did you mean that both blades and sicortex are
basically boutique approaches, as opposed to fungible/commodity?
SiCortex != blades. And != beowulf in the sense of "commodity" hardware
implementations, although the guts of a blade might make that argument.
I know they are not Beowulfs but being distributed memory machines I
figured someone here might have real-world experience with one.
I think it's still a beowulf if you apply "the beowulf approach" (linux
and open-source HPC clustering) to non-commodity hardware.
we still have a beowulf of Compaq ES40 alphas, for instance.
SiCortex is not too far from the Beowulf concept but is possibly closer
to a packaged single DM entity. I'd thought of it as a low-power, low
heat (DM) HPC system without ever considering the beowulfness of it. It
uses Linux and MPI, so it meets my needs in that regard. It's low-power
and thus lower heat; these are good. It's slower than current PC class
hardware. Bad selection for me at this point.
gerry
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