[MITgcm-support] beowulf clusters

[samar khatiwala]

Just my $.02 worth:

There was a piece in the NY Times a week or so ago about a company selling
a cluster in a small box. The really new thing about it was the relatively
miniscule power consumption (220W for a 12 node cluster). It sounded
intriguing.

http://www.orionmulti.com

Samar

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Chris Hill wrote:

> 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
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mitgcm-support-bounces at mitgcm.org
> > [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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