Author: Greg Lindahl
Date: 17:22:06 12/22/99
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On December 22, 1999 at 20:13:04, Dann Corbit wrote: >Is the clustering analogous to SMP or OpenVMS clustering or ??? No. >Do you use message passing? Yes. This is also sometimes called "distributed memory", which is what I called it in my inital posting. The IBM SP2 is similar. >How many CPU's can be built into the cluster? Hardware money and algorithm scaling are the limits. There is no one answer. >The newest COMPAQ machines can connect 32 CPU's with a bus speed of 1.6GHz. How >does your system compare? I can use any building block I like. I usually use single-CPU building bocks because they make sense for the problems involved. That Compaq machine only has 16 PCI busses, for example, and has a high per-cpu cost. -- g
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