cluster

Greg Lindahl lindahl at keyresearch.com
Sat Jul 13 20:31:59 PDT 2002


On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 12:52:54AM -0700, Angel Dimitrov wrote:

>  Here we built a cluster for MM5 model with two linux box. The first
> node is with AMD 700 MHz and the second node is with AMD 750 MHz CPU.
> We get top performance like one CPU with 1.4 GHz! It's seems that 100
> Mbit LAN cards are enough.

It depends on the size of your arrays. For this particular code, you
might be able to scale to 8-16 cpus with 100 mbit ethernet, depending
on that array size.

greg



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