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On 4/21/09 3:46 PM, "Jonathan Aquilina" <<a href="eagles051387@gmail.com">eagles051387@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<BR>
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That wouldn’t exactly be a cluster, would it? But you can certainly run a lot of the software associated with Beowulf clusters: a batch system (TORQUE, SGE, etc), MPI, ... so in practice you can use your 8 core workstation just like you would a cluster.<BR>
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Glen L. Beane<BR>
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The Jackson Laboratory<BR>
Phone (207) 288-6153<BR>
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