[Beowulf] NSLU2 as part of a low end cluster

[Jim Lux]

At 04:50 PM 3/19/2007, Chris Samuel wrote:
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>On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Geoff Jacobs wrote:
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> > Looks like people are seeing speeds of roughly 5MB/s up and 3MB/s down
> > with NFS. FTP is faster.
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>I wonder if that can be improved if you replace the firmware with another=20
>Linux distro ?


That is with a replacement distro.  It's just not a ball of fire speed wise.


James Lux, P.E.
Spacecraft Radio Frequency Subsystems Group
Flight Communications Systems Section
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mail Stop 161-213
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