[Beowulf] Demo-cluster ideas

[Douglas Eadline]

> What about Broadcom ethernet chips?

Good option, hard to find on the low-cost SFF boards, however.
As a matter of fact, I wish there were more options
for on-board Ethernet chip sets. I use and
test mostly top-tier mostly microATX boards for
my Limulus desk-side clusters.

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> From: Beowulf [mailto:beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org] On Behalf Of Douglas
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> Sent: Monday, February 01, 2016 11:43 AM
> To: Olli-Pekka Lehto <olli-pekka.lehto at csc.fi>
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> Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Demo-cluster ideas
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> 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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>> 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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