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> I've never done this before and I'd appreciate your collective input:
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> (1) Does Linux/MPICH/gcc/g95 work pretty well with dual core opteron
processors?
>From the OS perspective the extra core looks like just another CPU. So
it can work with MPI (one would assume MPI messages via
Nathan Moore wrote:
> I'm planning to put together a cluster at my institution to serve a
> computational physics class and also to use for parallel code
> development and small-scale research. My local land-grant university
> has plenty of horsepower available, so my primary goal is to set up a
>
On Sat, 26 Aug 2006, Nathan Moore wrote:
I'm planning to put together a cluster at my institution to serve a
computational physics class and also to use for parallel code development and
small-scale research. My local land-grant university has plenty of
horsepower available, so my primary goa
better). Additionally, the system needs to be cheap (less than $5k).
why spend anything?
After about 4 hours of diffusing around the web it has become clear to me
that most (all?) commercial solutions are too expensive and I should try to
put something together myself.
clusters are easy.
I'm planning to put together a cluster at my institution to serve a
computational physics class and also to use for parallel code
development and small-scale research. My local land-grant university
has plenty of horsepower available, so my primary goal is to set up a
modest cluster that w
