On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Avi Bercovich wrote:
> I was wondering what the status was of the effort to build a beowulf
> cluster using Indigo2's.
The cluster, named pixel (after a negative attitude towards the original
name), has been up and running for a while now, however we have not
built a web page for it. Some benchmarks have been run against it, not
by me so I do not know the results. It is currently configured with eight
nodes. Currently I am working on finishing up the floating point
exception handling for the kernel so we can run more benchmarks. I am
looking at the end of the month for that to be complete. The cluster will
then be put into more of a production enviroment, being used primarily for
research and education. We are then planning on putting together a four
node cluster to do more benchmarking and testing. I want to get the 64bit
kernel working on that cluster to see what performance gains it can
achieve. I also want to use the small cluster to look into kernel based
cluster performance enhancements. I should also mention that we have
tested pvm, MPI, and DIPC on the cluster, but I do not have any statistics
to quote.
-Andrew
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