Re: cluster hardware

[Nicolas Jungers <nicolas@linkline.be>]

this list is near dead. Anyway, it's a question of budget.

if yoy're really power hungry, think alpha, if you want to save some money
go athlon and finally if network performance is not a key, go GE (even
multiple) instead of Myrinet. If you go the GE way, don't spend much on your GE
hardware. Myrinet is really good and not so expensive. Avoid the outrageous
price of cisco and the like, use cheap netgears for switches or 3com.
Of course is network is really not important you can go FE :-)

finally, what's the size and use of your cluster?

Nicolas

On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 06:40:52AM -0800, Karen Shaeffer wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm knew to the list and wonder if this is a good forum for my current
> interests. I am in the process of selecting hardware for a linux cluster I
> will build in the next month. My intent is to build it myself and run a
> modified linux distribution on it. I would be interested in comments from
> others who are working with linux clusters.
> 
> Is this email list a good place for me concerning this matter?
> 
> cheers,
> Karen
> -- 
>  Karen Shaeffer
>  Neuralscape; Santa Cruz, Ca. 95060
>  shaeffer@neuralscape.com  http://www.neuralscape.com
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