Trying to simulate a beowulf cluster at a laptop with everything that belongs to it, is pretty much nonsense.
No hard feelings towards Jonathan there, he's excused. I remember he was 10 years ago living at Cyprus (if i remember well) busy exploring the similar things in linux :) Speaking of a quick learning curve! If someone wants to lurk around - no one is gonna stop him - for sure not me. On Nov 27, 2012, at 2:21 PM, Peter Clapham wrote: > On 27/11/2012 13:14, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >> Don't post something ridicioulous like that. >> >> That 64MB they use of course as with infiniband shipping a message of >> 64MB wil get you the full bandwidth over the network >> and keep number of messages down and infiniband doesn't work at your >> laptop. >> > Hello Vincent, > These are tunable parameters. > > I think the point the previous poster was making was that he is > testing > the water in a small scale on his laptop to become aquainted with the > software layer at this point. VM's are a quick cheap and cheerful hack > that can allow for very rapid proto-typing, even on a laptop, before > going full tilt on bespoke hardware and rolling out increasingly > exotic > fabrics and pipelines. > > Pete > > > -- > The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research > Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a > company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered > office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
