[Beowulf] How to make a BeagleBoard Elastic R Beowulf Cluster in a Briefcase

[Lux, Jim (337C)]

Jim Lux
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org [mailto:beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org] On Behalf Of Douglas Eadline
> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 1:25 PM
> To: stuart at cyberdelix.net
> Cc: beowulf at beowulf.org
> Subject: Re: [Beowulf] How to make a BeagleBoard Elastic R Beowulf Cluster in a Briefcase
> 
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> As a builder of some cheapo home clusters I would say that
> software development (owning the reset switch is nice),
> problem development (staging a small version of a problem
> before you scale it up), and running real codes (most
> HPC apps don't scale that well in any case).

If you were writing proposals to scale up to hundreds of nodes, especially if you are self-funding the proposal work, then having demonstrated it on a cluster at all might lend credibility to your proposal, especially if the proposal evaluators are not cluster-afficionados (so they question the applicability of clusters in general, and are ignorant of the scaling issues)

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> Of course I'm still trying to build my HAL 9000
> clone.
> 
> --
> Doug
> 


I don't think you want to do that, Doug...