[Beowulf] ever heard of ScaleMP?

[Joe Landman]

Tim Cutts wrote:

> I've been quite curious to try something like the f1200 as a potential 
> replacement for our Altixes, which were bought predominantly for running 
> single-threaded large-memory jobs.

It is fairly easy (barring cost issues) to get a single system image 
machine with 8-16 processor cores and 128 GB ram.  Beyond that, you need 
something like ScaleMP or a "proprietary" box to get more RAM.



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