stephen mulcahy wrote: > John Hearns wrote: >> Hmmmm.... can I forsee Puppy Linux HPC Edition ???? >> http://www.puppylinux.org/ >> >> >> Being half serious here, is it worth trying to get one of these >> slimmed-down distros to the state where it will run an HPC job? >> Oh, and in addition to a barebones install for our contemplative >> cluster, they have a onebones install which cuts out the GUI (cue more >> dog puns). > > Is there that much of a difference between Puppy and a minimal Debian > where you install only the "standard server" task (I understand Puppy is > a Debian derivative, apologies if this is incorrect)? > > Or am I swinging my Debian swiss-army chainsaw indiscriminately here? > > -stephen >
Damn Small (DSL) is, Puppy is not. I believe Puppy is it's own beast. This is an interesting topic, though. How much difference does shrinking the size of a kernel build make in improving the performance of a tightly coupled lockstep algorithm scaled to hundreds, or thousands of nodes? Anything in the literature which is directly comparable, not just the ASCI Q paper? -- Geoffrey D. Jacobs _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
