Posted by Kenneth Farmer, Thursday November 03 2005 @ 09:48AM EST
ClusterMonkey: Putting your cluster to work on parallel tasks.
In our previous installment, we started out by learning how to use pretty much an arbitrary Linux LAN as the simplest sort of parallel compute cluster. In this column we continue our hands-on approach to learning about clusters and play with our archetypical parallel task on our starter cluster to learn when it runs efficiently and just as important, when it runs inefficiently.
IDC: Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer Blade Solution
Analysis of the Xtreme-X architecture and management system while assessing challenges and opportunities in the technical computing market for blade servers. Video - The Road to PetaFlop Computing
Explore the Scalable Unit concept where multiple clusters of various sizes can be rapidly built and deployed into production. This new architectural approach yields many subtle benefits to dramatically lower total cost of ownership.