Clusters

[MechCD]

Lets say I have a 233mhz P1 and a 350mhz AMD k6-2 (i do actually). Seperatly they crunch very slow. But in a cluster, wouldn't they act as a single 583mhz puter? and crunch like a 583mhz CPU (faster)?

[phil]

I don't think it will work out that way for Genome...what you need is a highly threaded program with minimal I/O. The overhead with trying this will probably turn out slower than running them individually.

Clustering in the sense that you are talking about (like the Beowulf cluster) is highly specialized and not really useful for the type of porgrams that ordinary users run.

[MechCD]

darn

I still have dreams of a hex ppro 233..........

[phil]

You could try this (http://www.trygve.com/furbeowulf.html) I suppose :D

[MechCD]

:D LOL! :D

[Jodie]

waaaay tooooo funnny!:D

[Jodie]

http://www.trygve.com/nerdsigns.html

I'm born under the sign of Quake!

Quake, the Video Game (December 22nd ~ January 19th)


Energetic, imaginitive, and often heavily armed, Quakers keep finding themselves abruptly plunged into the midst of chaos and crossfire, and solving or blowing up the current batch of problems and crises may turn out to be only the harbinger of a new, more challenging level of bigger problems and crises.

Able to don many different hats or "skins" to cope with this wide array of problems, the child of the video game often still finds himself or herself really looking for an even bigger gun with which to take out opponents.


How appropo!

[MechCD]

I be a weller the soldering iron :D