Re: [FLASH-USERS] A Cluster dedicated for FLASH?

From: Tomasz Plewa <tomek@flash.uchicago.edu>
Date: Thu Apr 07 2005 - 19:57:19 CDT

Hubert -

Infiniband is certainly worth the money if you plan to use plenty of
memory and run large production jobs. It is also becomes de facto
a standard replacing low-end (considered now) solutions like
Myrinet.

Tschuess -

Tomek

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On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 08:16:19PM +0200, Hubert Klahr wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
> 
>     we are going to apply for a new linux cluster
> in our department. Now we try to figure out an
> optimized system, as cheep and as powerful	
> as possible. So what is in your experience the
> optimum configuration to run FLASH with and
> without self gravity?
> 
>     We think about a 256 opteron processor cluster. Now the
> questions are:
> 
>     How much memory per processor do we need?
>     What network do we need? Infiniband/Giganet/Myrinet...
> 
> In order to get as many as possible processors we have
> to minimize the cost for network, processor-clockspeed,
> and memory per node.
> 
> Any opinion?
> 
> Best wishes
> Hubert
> 
> PS: We will also run ZEUS-MP, the Pencil Code, Gadget and TRA-MP on  
> this cluster.
> 
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