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At 01:21 PM 11/27/2006, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:<br>
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>Rudollah,<br>
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>Why not go for quad core intel or
dual core intel?<br>
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>About every test they are faster
except when you need 1 terabyte of RAM and fast latency to that RAM; some
CFD type workload so to speak that is latency based, in which case more
cpu power doesn't help so single core 3Ghz AMD's are fastest in that
case, because they give a faster latency to RAM.<br>
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>Basically you'll need 1 switch, 5
mainboards, 5 cpu's + coolers, some RAM for each mainboard and 5
psu's.<br>
As it is low budget i assume you can make the case yourself from some
wood in a free weekend.</font></blockquote><br>
Case? what case? Just stack the stuff on a shelf with double stick
tape, arrange a fan to blow on it all, and you're done.
<grin><br><br>
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>You can boot over the network,
though i never did do that myself.<br>
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I use net boot all the time. Be forwarned, though, it can be real
creepingly slow if you wind up with a lot of nodes all trying to hit the
very same image on the server at the same time. But, it is nice to
not have to worry about version control on the nodes.<br><br>
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