Let's say you were going to set up a cluster for undergraduates to learn how to use SGE and run typical chemistry applications. Ultimate performance is not the primary goal. Let's say you get charged for rack space in your data center and there's very little budget to pay for space.
I see you can now get 48-cores in one 1U box. What do you think about running all the compute nodes as 1-core virtual machines on the one box? Or, would you just run the machine with one OS and a SGE queue with 47 slots (with 1 core for the frontend)? This is probably not the kind of environment most of you run in, but it does present interesting issues. 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
