Beowolf fun!

[bill.n1vux-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Bill Ricker)]

> One of my projects is to put together a Beowolf cluster.   As I research
> the details (including beowolf.org), what pointers can you all give me for
> key elements of equipment, Linux versions, etc?

BLU's own Kurt Keville is the local authority on clusters. He usually
gives BLU a talk once a year on clusters or ad-hoc radio networking or
something. See his cluster info page linked from
http://mit.edu/~kkeville/www/

The key elements and key choices
* your interconnect
* your topology
* your parallel programming tool/model/messaging-library
Optimal choices depend upon geometry and algorithmic options of your problem.

Choice of processor USED to be important, less so today (Alpha out of
production, iTanium not yet up to speed, SPARC falling behind on
speed,  ...).

GigE is minimum interconnect to be taken half-seriously today, but for
learning purposes 100bT could be "amusing" (I've considered it).

The current SERIOUS choices are documented at http://www.top500.org/

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Bill
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