[Beowulf] Demo-cluster ideas

[doug.lattman at L-3com.com]

What about Broadcom ethernet chips?

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Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Demo-cluster ideas


If you want to try and pull real performance out of any i7 based SFF boards,
pay close attention to the Ethernet chipset (avoid Realtek, seek Intel)

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Doug



> We're in the process of developing a demo Beowulf cluster in the 
> spirit of Tiny Titan (http://tinytitan.github.io/). However, the one 
> we are working on is based on 10 Intel i7 small-form-factor boards 
> with a fairly good per-core compute capability.
>
> I'd be interested to hear if you have some ideas (or even pointers to
> code!) for demonstrating HPC concepts to the general public. 
> Especially having an element of interactivity would be nice.
>
> Couple of low-hanging fruits that we are already looking at are 
> Blender/povray-rendering and porting the existing Tiny Titan codes.
>
> Best regards,
> Olli-Pekka
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