Re: beowulf clusters?
Paul Nathan Puri <publisher@ompages.com> writes:
> Do nodes in a beowulf cluster all have to have the same hw configuration?
>
> or can different types of intel based configurations work?
There is no reason for the nodes to have the same hardware, or even
the same kind of hardware--lots of people run with intel, alphas, and
sparcs simultaneously. The node-node communication software (pvm,
mpi, etc) handles big/little-endian translations transparently.
System administration-type issues are obviously simpler with uniform
hardware, but most people use whatever hardware they can scrounge up.
BTW, these sorts of questions will find more knowledgeable readers in
the beowulf mail-list.
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