[Cialug] Cluster

[Paul Gray]

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On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 01:00:49PM -0600, Lee wrote:
> Purely for experience at the moment. But as with many of my projects, it
> will relate to software development. I need a model, so I'm setting up a
> couple Proliant 800s. This is new territory for me though and I've found a
> lot of very general spec sheet style documents on the subject.
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> What sort of interconnect should I be looking for. Is a fast 10/100 switch
> all I really need. Or is the speed between the two just that... A matter =
of
> preferred speed?

It depends completely upon the type of application you're planning on
supporting.  If you just want a compute farm, 10/100 would be fine.  If you
need to do molecular dynamics, then think Myrinet/Infiniband.

Seeing as you're looking to start with the Proliants, a 10/100 should be ju=
st
fine.

You may want to boot them with the Bootable Cluster CD first, if your proje=
ct
is motivated mostly by curiosity, http://bccd.cs.uni.edu.


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