Hi Mark,
Thanks for your reply. I am not professing expertise or arguing
strongly for something - just noting that these i7-4770R Brix units
might make it easy for someone to craft their own compact and power
efficient cluster, if they were happy with gigabit Ethernet, did not
want to use special
In the Beowulf tradition, here are some ideas about how one might go
about making a cluster with off-the-shelf consumer products, with a few
potential advantages compared to using traditional PC cases and
motherboards: compactness, lower power consumption and ease of running
from a 24 volt lead-aci
Parts of the "Roadrunner shutdown" thread developed into a discussion
about the benefits of hiring specialized HPC programmers as an
alternative to spending more money on hardware.
For the benefit of folks searching the archives, here is one of the
messages in that sub-thread, from Brian Dobbins,
In the "Mark Hahn's Beowulf/Cluster/HPC mini-FAQ . . ." thread I gave
some examples of why acoustic modelling (simulating vibration in air
and/or the bodies and strings of musical instruments) can be
computationally extremely demanding:
http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2012-November/0303
Hi Mark and Jim,
Thanks for reading my message and responding so informatively.
Regarding music synthesis, Mark wrote:
> OTOH, I can't really imagine how music synthesis could use enough
> compute power to keep more than a few cores busy, no matter what
> programming model you choose.
That may
On 2012-10-31 CJ O'Reilly asked some pertinent questions about HPC,
Cluster, Beowulf computing from the perspective of a newbie:
http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2012-October/030359.html
The replies began in the "Digital Image Processing via
HPC/Cluster/Beowulf - Basics" thread on the
