27 Jan
1999
27 Jan
'99
1:41 p.m.
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Wirehead Prime wrote:
I've been building a Beowulf cluster out of
discarded 486 and Pentium
junk. Even got a 64 port hub to connect the thing. I expect to be below
the 10.9 gflops reported so far by at least an order of magnitude. But
that's hardly the point.
Ouch. You may be unimpressed by its performance; Beowolf clusters really
want to be switched, over multiple 100 Mbit connections, at that. The
shared fabric of a half-duplex 10 Mbit ethernet at 64 nodes is probably
going to get you the performance of 64 286 machines instead of 64
486-class machines.
Power to you, all the same. It'll be fun at least. (:
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