Re: [Beowulf] MPICH vs. OpenMPI

2008-04-25 Thread Philippe Blaise
Prentice Bisbal a écrit : Can anyone give me a quick comparison of OpenMPI vs. MPICH? I've always used MPICH (I never liked lam), and just recently heard about OpenMPI. Anyone here using it? I use OpenMPI since a few months and run programs like Abinit, Siesta with success every days (on a s

[Beowulf] Question about video/audio

2008-04-25 Thread Linux Mercedes
Hi, I'm wondering if a Beowulf cluster would be a good choice for doing audio/video production, or if I'm looking for something else. If it is, I'm curious as to how it would work with a heterogenous cluster (I have machines with speeds anywhere between 100Mhz and 1Ghz that I'd like to use,