Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 17:26:57 -0700 (PDT) From: rick hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com> To: "Samer, Michael, IN" <Michael.Samer@Ingolstadt.BERTRANDT.com> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions (E-Mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Cluster?! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.990510172247.22496D-100000@dsinw.com> In-Reply-To: <DE7D44483D7ED211BF3300A0C93B227748B551@in_sv_off>
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> Does anyone have experience (on universities or research) with Cluster and > the efficency? I don't know how much Alphas cost versus regular PCs, but you may want to take a look at Beowulf. I've heard several reports of people running it under FreeBSD, including an unconfirmed inside sourse at NASA. There are several commercial clustering programs also, though I do not know the name of them off the top of my head. Anyways if you run several fast PC's PII-400s or so with FreeBSD in a clusterd environment you should see quite a bit of performance, and a large cost savings. The best part (IMHO) of using the PCs, you can swap new ones in and out easily, and be cost-effective at doing so. Rick ---- "Religion exists because man can't belive that he's nothing more then a random accident." http://www.grendal.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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