[MITgcm-support] beowulf clusters

[chris hill]

Hi All,

 Does anybody have access to one of these? I believe they use the
Transmeta processors which is why you can get a lot of them in a compact
box. I don't know what performance is like though.

Chris

On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 10:04, samar khatiwala wrote:
> 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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