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Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2020 21:08:30 +0000<br>
From: "Lux, Jim (US 337K)" <<a href="mailto:james.p.lux@jpl.nasa.gov" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">james.p.lux@jpl.nasa.gov</a>><br>
To: "<a href="mailto:beowulf@beowulf.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">beowulf@beowulf.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:beowulf@beowulf.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">beowulf@beowulf.org</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [Beowulf] [EXTERNAL] Re: First cluster in 20 years -<br>
questions about today<br>
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How old is the old cluster? You might actually spend more time trying to get the nodes all working than you’d save by having them as a compute element. I’ve looked at piles of computers in my garage and thought “hey, I should cluster them” and then, I realize that the discount laptop I can buy for a few hundred bucks will blow the combination away.<br>
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So, unless you’re “learning how to build a cluster”, I wouldn’t think that’s the way to go. And for the “how to bring up a cluster tinkering”, a batch of rPi or beagles and a cheap switch is probably cheaper and more reflective of modern distros.<br>
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OTOH, if your three old nodes are a year old, then have at it.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The old cluster is about 15 years old. Dual cpu socket 940 Opteron. It is what I currently have.</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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