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

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From: faust
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 20:33

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 lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl) ,  emitted these fragments:

 
>>My point is that there are cheaper highly competitive alternatives.
>>Clustering cheap boxes to get supercomputer performance is going to
>>increase.
>
>Your point isn't right. For applications that don't require extremely
>low latency communications, clustering cheap boxes works nicely.

For low latency communications, there are other options.
QsNET Version Elan3 would be appropriate and was used for ASCI Q the
supercomputer cluster at LLNL.

See: http://www.c3.lanl.gov/~fabrizio/quadrics.html 


ASCI Q is now number 2 on the 500 top supercomputer list.

If you want details of Elan 3 performance, read this:
http://www.c3.lanl.gov/~fabrizio/papers/jcc.pdf

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From: faust <urfaust@optushome.com.au>
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Subject: Linux clustering ( was Re: DO NOT BUY ASUS ...)
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