Linux Cluster Urban Legends
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Just like there are "Urban Legends" that never seem to die, so it seems there are "Cluster Urban Legends" that persist even today. We have all seen or heard them. Wacky things people say about HPC clusters. As a service to the HPC (High Performance Computing) community, and to the world at large I have decided to prepare a list of my personal favorites. Hopefully, these legends (misconceptions) will eventually fade, but then again, this is the Internet age.
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Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
This comment/joke is seen often on Slashdot when there is some new processor, computer, video game, cluster, or whatever. My answer, of course is "No, not really." Just connecting things does not make a usable cluster. At the beginning and end of the day, HPC is all about price-to-performance. Whatever you connect must make sense. Connecting a bunch of old PII systems to equal the performance of a single Opteron may make sense if you are building a rendering farm, but may be a bad idea if you want to calculate the weather for next week. Full Story |
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