Re: the benifits
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Hi Matt,
I think your question is being answered negatively in the Beowulf FAQ but
here is my a bit more improved offering.
The answer is "yes" or "no" all depending on the application.
Some examples:
1) you're doing mem/cpu intensive stuff: .. the answer is probably no,
price/performance wise...
2) you're doing some parallel disk op that doesn't require much
communication: it may be worth it.
On Saturday 07 July 2001 18:06, Matt Fair wrote:
> I was thinking, if you were to have 2 100 MHZ computers, would it
> perform just as good as a 200 MHZ, or is there performance increase due
> to having multiple processors? On a large scale, would it be worth
> having 200 100 MHZ computers, or would I just be wasting floor space and
> should get a better processor to use in a cluster?
> I have not put together any clusters before, but I was just wondering if
> people have thought about this and tested it.
> Thanks,
> Matt
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Eray Ozkural (exa) <erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr>
Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara
www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo
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