On 3/5/2010 10:05 AM, Hearns, John wrote:
My recommendation also would be to use an external storage device - a USB drive would be useful, and I have been involved in a couple of industrial projects where data has been brought to a cluster on an external USB drive. It is as people say quite an efficient way to transfer the data.
Yes, except the speed of even USB 2.0 would make this an unpleasant experience. These days many external drives support eSATA, which runs at regular SATA speeds so you're not facing the USB bottleneck. If your host doesn't have an eSATA connector you can buy a PCI card for not much money. Once USB 3 is ubiquitous this problem (e.g USB 2.0 vs eSATA) will go away. Cordially, -- Jon Forrest Research Computing Support College of Chemistry 173 Tan Hall University of California Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1460 510-643-1032 jlforr...@berkeley.edu _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
