Linux clustering ( was Re: DO NOT BUY ASUS ...)

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From: faust
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 20:07

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 Electron Migration <ISO-teric@myrealbox.c0m> ,  emitted these
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>At this point in time beowulfs (both ``true beowulfs'' and beowulf-style 
>MCOTS clusters of all sorts) are proven technology and can easily be 
>shown to utterly overwhelm any other computing model in cost-benefit for 
>all but a handful of very difficult bleeding edge computational 
>problems. A beowulf-style cluster can often equal or even beat a ``big 
>iron'' parallel supercomputer in performance while costing a tiny 
>fraction as much to build or run1.30.

Beowulf clusters ARE supercomputers.
The fifth fastest supercomputer in the world is the MRC Linux cluster
at Lawrence livermoore:

http://www.top500.org/top5/2002/11/five/

"Cluster Overview:
11.2 Tflops Linux cluster 
4.6 TB of aggregate memory 
138.2 TB of aggregate local disk space 
1152 total nodes plus separate hot spare cluster and development
cluster 
2,304 Intel 2.4 GHz Xeon processors 

Each node within the cluster contains QsNet ELAN3 by Quadrics, 4 GB of
DDR SDRAM memory per node, 120 GB Disk Space. ICE Box™ will also be
used to help LLNL manage and maintain the clusters. "

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From: faust <urfaust@optushome.com.au>
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Subject: Linux clustering ( was Re: DO NOT BUY ASUS ...)
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 12:07:20 -0800
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