[Beowulf] Newbie question.

[Glen Gardner]

$25K will build a nice cluster.


I'd be tempted to go with something in small cube cases with on-board 
gigabit .

P4 is good, Xeon is very good, as is Opteron. Mac is an option , but 
costs a lot more.

Depending on how you go about it, $25K ought to be enough money to build 
a really nice 16 node cluster
and maybe you can throw in 4-5 cheap machines to use as PVFS I/O servers.

It all depends on how much you want to buy pre-assembled and how much 
you are willing to build yourself.


Glen



Currit, Dennis wrote:

>We are thinking of putting up a cluster to run MSC Nastran and have about
>$25,000 budgeted for hardware.  Is this enough to get get started?  Any
>suggestions as to what I should buy?  Currently we are running large jobs on
>an older AIX multiprocessor system and smaller jobs on a Xeon 2.8 system, so
>I think even a small cluster should be an improvement.
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