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  1. #1
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    Sixty-four 1GHz AMD Athlon PCs = supercomputer

    The initial research application will concentrate on the large-scale modelling of electro-seismic phenomena in fluid saturated material with specialised, parallel Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) and Discrete Element (DE) code being developed in-house.
    I did not understand a word of that.

    http://www.esci.keele.ac.uk/geophysics/kage/index.html
    zaax

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    Me either. However, if 64 1GHz Athalon's are a supercomputer, I'm not impressed.

  3. #3
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    Originally posted by DanX
    Me either. However, if 64 1GHz Athalon's are a supercomputer, I'm not impressed.
    I would like to have one though

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    how are they interlinked with ethernet?

    a bunch of comps on a network is not considered a super computer... is it ?

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    It's just another Beowulf cluster. There are many of them in operation around the world. They're primarly used for large data processing or calculations.

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    ilyash, it's more than just a network. One server is running a "master" cluster server application, and the other servers are running the client. The master server sends out processing commands to other computers via different methods, Ethernet in a Beowulf cluster. A good Tech TV - Screensavers episode demonstrates exactly this is http://www.offmyserver.com/cgi-bin/store/cluster.html

    That explains what a Beowulf cluster is, how to set one up, and underneath the picture, is a link to the Screen Savers show when they set it up.
    John Kata

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