[Beowulf] a cluster to drive a wall of monitors

[Robert G. Brown]

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Douglas Eadline, Cluster World Magazine wrote:

> 
> We did an issue on this:
> 
> http://www.clusterworld.com/issues/jul-04-preview.shtml
> 
> BTW: Issue gallery is here:
> http://www.clusterworld.com/issues.shtml
> 
> We are working on way make back issues available. For now, if
> you know someone that gets ClusterWorld, maybe you can borrow an issue.
> 
> Oh, I see you are at Duke. Maybe contact rgb.
> (http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/)

<blush> Oh yeah, kinda forgot about that.  Busy week.  I'll see if I can
dig out the issue from my neatly organized stash (ha!) </blush>

   rgb

> 
> Doug
> 
> 
> On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Evan Cull wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I was told this list would be a good place to ask for advice on the 
> > following project.  (I've tried to search through list archives for 
> > related info, but I haven't managed to spot anything so far.) 
> > 
> > I'm helping with a project that want's to drive a wall of about 50 LCD 
> > panels with a linux cluster running Syzygy:
> > http://www.isl.uiuc.edu/syzygy.htm
> > 
> > I was considering a cluster of either 50 single processor nodes or 25 
> > dual processor + dual output graphics card nodes.  I suppose 50 dual 
> > processor nodes would be nice, but I'm pretty sure that's well out of my 
> > budget range.  I'm betting that the 50 single processor nodes would 
> > easily have twice the graphics performance of the 25 dual nodes because 
> > they have 2x as many video cards.  The tradeoff here is that the dual 
> > processor nodes might be more useful for other more general computing 
> > tasks we could run on them. 
> > 
> > Does anyone here have experience buying rackmountable cluster nodes 
> > *with graphics cards* who can point me to a vendor?
> > 
> > For that matter, have any of you built a similar system & have any 
> > suggestions / comments?
> > 
> > thanks,
> > Evan Cull
> > 
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