[Beowulf] A simple cluster

Geoff Jacobs gdjacobs at gmail.com
Thu Jun 26 06:16:33 PDT 2008


Peter St. John wrote:
> Alcides,
> 
> I think a short answer is: get a switch, plug all the boxes (throught
> the ethernet ports on the motherboards) to the switch, install Ubuntu
> and use OpenMP.
> 
> Longer answers will be forthcoming, but I bet they will start with
> questions about the specific  hardware you have, the budget, whether
> your applications are latency or compute time dependent, how
> parallelizable it is, shared memory model...
> 
> Peter
> 

OpenMPI, maybe?





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