Re: [Beowulf] Audio simulation as an example of demanding computational tasks

2012-11-06 Thread Vincent Diepeveen
On Nov 6, 2012, at 1:01 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 02:24:36PM +1100, Robin Whittle wrote: > >> One day I will attempt to do some of the above. As far as I know, >> the >> best approach will be to initially use a single server with as many >> CPU-cores as I can get, with a

Re: [Beowulf] Audio simulation as an example of demanding computational tasks

2012-11-06 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 02:24:36PM +1100, Robin Whittle wrote: > One day I will attempt to do some of the above. As far as I know, the > best approach will be to initially use a single server with as many > CPU-cores as I can get, with as much RAM as possible. I would split the > workload up wit

[Beowulf] Audio simulation as an example of demanding computational tasks

2012-11-05 Thread Robin Whittle
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