[TriLUG] Building a beowulf (or other) cluster

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2011, Ron Kelley wrote:

> I would like to install some sort of distributed process 
> management tool so we can enable N-nodes to run the 
> computations simultaneously.

You only use a beowulf if the job cannot fit inside a single 
machine/node. This usually means that the job needs more 
memory than a single node holds. If this is your situation, 
you then recode the app to use the nodes in parallel. This 
usually means using mpi or omp.

If each job can be run in a single node, then you need a job 
farm (lots of machines with a job dispatcher).

Joe

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