Re: [Beowulf] First cluster in 20 years - questions about today

2020-02-01 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
Hi Mark, So you are going to revive your old 3 node cluster and expand that? I would suggest if you are looking to expand the cluster I would look at the ryzen epyc rome 2 the second generation of these chips is quite impressive in the sense you can do double the amount of 2 single intel chips.

[Beowulf] First cluster in 20 years - questions about today

2020-02-01 Thread Mark Kosmowski
I've been out of computation for about 20 years since my master degree. I'm getting into the game again as a private individual. When I was active Opteron was just launched - I was an early adopter of amd64 because I needed the RAM (maybe more accurately I needed to thoroughly thrash my swap drive