Anybody have one? Thinking about making one with a few nodes..

More Information http://www.beowulf.org

Found some pictures of a very nice 300 server cluster called Meduda..

URL: http://www.lsc-group.phys.uwm.edu/beowulf/medusa/index.html

That has got to be the most organized racks I have ever seen..

I have as friend that was thinking about it, but after checking here decided it was'nt what i needed.

http://webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21240&highlight=beowulf

decided to use win 2k advanced server on a dual pii 233...
does what he needs with no glitches....

That is indeed one well organized system! Did you see the rainbow-coded cabling for each shelf? A glance at the blade number and the color will tell you which node it is.

Anyway, I worked on installing a Beowulf cluster for the University here. We had 12 nodes of old Gateway P-90's, so it was intended more for computer science theory than it was for "useful research." It certainly wasn't 300 nodes of !GHz/PIII's, that's for sure. :smokin:

I'm not sure what practical help I could provide but it's worth a shot. What do you want to know?

Originally posted by getweb
That is indeed one well organized system! Did you see the rainbow-coded cabling for each shelf? A glance at the blade number and the color will tell you which node it is.

Anyway, I worked on installing a Beowulf cluster for the University here. We had 12 nodes of old Gateway P-90's, so it was intended more for computer science theory than it was for "useful research." It certainly wasn't 300 nodes of !GHz/PIII's, that's for sure. :smokin:

I'm not sure what practical help I could provide but it's worth a shot. What do you want to know?

1) Yeah, so nice.. :)

2) Not bad, I'm thinking of doing about 2-3,4 with 400mhz machines

I remember hearing about a system called tflops. Dont remember where. Something like several thousand pent pro's all hooked up, capable of doing over a terabyte of floating point operations per second. I dont remember whether it was theory or real.

Found it : http://developer.intel.com/technology/itj/q11998/articles/art_1.htm