-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Camm Maguire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >what hardware would be best for this project. Is the Alpha >distribution ready for prime-time? What about SMP boards? We'd like >to get the most bang for our buck, but don't have the manpower to >handle extensive software debugging/instability. Also, if any >knowledgeable reader could comment on any performance surprises which >may be in store for us, that would be most helpful. The Beowulf >systems I've seen described so far claim to peak at around 1.2 GFLOPS >for 16 machines, which is about 2 to 3 times faster than to 400 MFLOPS >we get with the Power Challenge, but I'm sure this is task dependent >and I'd like to get a feel for how this performance will degrade as >the granularity of the parallelism decreases.
We use a Linux cluster here, too. It was upgraded recently and consists now of 32 PII/300 machines (upgradable with a second PII). We will upgrade to Debian soon (we are using Slackware in the moment). We do not use Beowulf in the moment. A web page of the cluster project is at http://bigbrother.ag1.mpi-sb.mpg.de/. Please compare with my previous mail about 'Unattended package install' cu AW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNSuX/8CaUV487z8dAQFzpAP/UzDKrhfTknB/IR3PeY8fZqG2Lvmj4FeW dNRxPlAU71DuYavPTB2mzdwAmopGXnCx7WotuBmk1wJPMBRkKA6Ycm5ebceFuCVs 1bLDMOmeW8F6VMilxePKQrZQwLTKJKAjq89NAjTicxGIdp4AVacjnpVwoXQPh4uW WHOB6tAkoQQ= =8/v9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
