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Wanted: Turn-Key 10-Node Beowulf Cluster

Posted by timothy on from the only-alive-not-dead dept.

forgotten password writes: "I'd just started working on my morning M&Ms, when I was asked where my group can buy a good turn-key ~2CPUx10-node Beowulf cluster in two hours. I suspect the time frame is longer than that, although the window-of-opportunity for the money is apparently on the order of days, and a quote before the procurement meeting would help. Any ideas? Who's good? What it should cost? Thanks!" If you're quick, maybe you can become the world's newest manufacturer of custom beowulf clusters.

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  1. So they want a cluster in 2 hours to do .... ? by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 1, Redundant
    You can't buy (or make) a x node cluster and expect to run Quake x times faster : parallel processing machines require parallel programming. This is usually means that you want a cluster to solve a particular problem, that the problem is specified, the parallel application is properly designed, architectured and implemented.

    I have the feeling that friend forgotten_password's group have no clue about Beowulf clusters.

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  2. Maybe something here ... by Midnight+Thunder · · Score: 2, Redundant
    I have never set one up, but maybe visiting the Beowulf might be a good starting point. Other links include the Beowulf Clusters page at Yahoo and the Oak Ridge Extreme Linux Page.

    If you don't find any answers to your quest then you could always buy 10 dual-processor machines, configure one and then copy its HD image to the other 9 ( I have never tried this ).

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