Jim Lux +1(818)354-2075
> -----Original Message----- > From: beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org [mailto:beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org] On > Behalf Of Douglas Eadline > Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 1:25 PM > To: stu...@cyberdelix.net > Cc: beowulf@beowulf.org > Subject: Re: [Beowulf] How to make a BeagleBoard Elastic R Beowulf Cluster in > a Briefcase > > > As a builder of some cheapo home clusters I would say that > software development (owning the reset switch is nice), > problem development (staging a small version of a problem > before you scale it up), and running real codes (most > HPC apps don't scale that well in any case). If you were writing proposals to scale up to hundreds of nodes, especially if you are self-funding the proposal work, then having demonstrated it on a cluster at all might lend credibility to your proposal, especially if the proposal evaluators are not cluster-afficionados (so they question the applicability of clusters in general, and are ignorant of the scaling issues) > > > Of course I'm still trying to build my HAL 9000 > clone. > > -- > Doug > I don't think you want to do that, Doug... _______________________________________________ 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
