If that's true, then a 128-processor system would require a minimum of either 32 or 64 GB of RAM, depending on whether you can put 256 MB on a node board.
You can put up to 32GB on a node board/CX brick, a max of 8 CX bricks per rack makes for 256GB per rack, up to 1TB in a 512cpu system (4 racks). Not sure what the minimum is.
Hey yeah, just like an asshat American muscle car/NASCAR lovin' redneck who pulls a V12 out of a Ferrari 265GTB and slaps in an American V8 for 'real power.'
Look on street corners anywhere on the West Coast. Or look in the junk bin of any big Industrial place in the East, Kodak for example. Or if you really must grab one off eBay.
What is it with beowulf clusters?
This is a ccNUMA machine people, breaking it appart into a whole bunch of clusters is asinine, it's one-very-large-system. Though often they *partition* a very-large-system into two or more really-large-systems for redundacy or for a specific task.
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If that's true, then a 128-processor system would require a minimum of either 32 or 64 GB of RAM, depending on whether you can put 256 MB on a node board.
You can put up to 32GB on a node board/CX brick, a max of 8 CX bricks per rack makes for 256GB per rack, up to 1TB in a 512cpu system (4 racks). Not sure what the minimum is.
Hey yeah, just like an asshat American muscle car/NASCAR lovin' redneck who pulls a V12 out of a Ferrari 265GTB and slaps in an American V8 for 'real power.'
A $300 Octane still rocks-out any current sub-$1000 PC in Pro/ENGINEER.
Look on street corners anywhere on the West Coast. Or look in the junk bin of any big Industrial place in the East, Kodak for example. Or if you really must grab one off eBay.
SGI makes clusters
Wrong.
What is it with beowulf clusters? This is a ccNUMA machine people, breaking it appart into a whole bunch of clusters is asinine, it's one-very-large-system. Though often they *partition* a very-large-system into two or more really-large-systems for redundacy or for a specific task.
How come stuff like this doesn't get modded up, this guy has computers!