[MITgcm-support] beowulf clusters

[Chris Hill]

Hi Mike,

 At the moment, the most popular thing, among our vast list of users :-),
seems to be Opteron based systems. The Opteron duals tend to do better
scaling than the Xeon duals. There are also some G5 cluster advocates out
there too. They may want to comment?
 
Chris 

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> [mailto:mitgcm-support-bounces at mitgcm.org] On Behalf Of Mike Spall
> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 9:47 AM
> To: mitgcm-support at mitgcm.org
> Subject: [MITgcm-support] beowulf clusters
> 
> I am in the process of shopping for a small (4 compute nodes,
> 8 processors) beowulf cluster.  I have been getting quotes 
> from PSSC Labs, Aspen Systems, and Microway.  I was wondering 
> if anyone has done any benchmarking of the MITgcm with 
> similar machines.
> Any preference between Xeon and Opteron?  I am looking at the 
> GB ethernet connection.  The prices I am getting are 10-15k.
> Any suggestions would be welcome.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike
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