Linux clusters for HPC: Why and why not?
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Posted by Kenneth Farmer, Thursday December 09 2004 @ 11:09PM EST
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Search Enterprise Linux: If your organization has IT money to burn and doesn't mind being locked into a proprietary system, then buy a supercomputer for your high-performance computing (HPC) applications. If you're not living in that kind of IT ivory tower, you should join the crowd that's checking out the new capabilities of HPC Linux clusters, says Len Rosenthal, co-founder and marketing vice president for PathScale Inc., a provider of hardware and software clustering systems based in Sunnyvale, Calif. In this interview, he points out the strengths and weaknesses in HPC of Linux clusters and the top two processors.
Interview...
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