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Clusters are all about design. Indeed, clusters are about designing machines | Clusters are all about design. Indeed, clusters are about designing machines | ||
− | around problems. When designing a cluster the following | + | around problems. When designing a cluster the following questions need to be |
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− | + | Consider your budget? | |
− | * Do you need help with software and support? If so, reserve | + | * Do you need help with software and support? If so, reserve soem funds for this part of the project. |
− | * Do you plan on assembling the cluster yourself? If yes, at what level? Starting from motherboards, cases, memory, | + | * Do you plan on assembling the cluster yourself? If yes, at what level? Starting from motherboards, cases, memory, processros, etc. can be very tiem consumeing. Buy quality parts |
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− | + | How many processors? | |
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− | + | * This depends on your application. How well does you applicaiton scale. Have you tested it on a real cluster? If it is a common application, have other run it on a cluster? | |
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− | + | What Type of Interconnect? | |
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− | + | * Again, this depends on your applicaiton. If you can use Gigabit Ethernet, then you can probabaly by more nodes. If you need a faster interconnect, then you may have to sacrifie nodes for interconnects to stay in your budget. | |
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− | + | * [http://www.phy.duke.edu/resources/computing/brahma/Resources/beowulf_book.php Engineering a Beowulf-Style Compute Cluster by Robert G. Brown ] - A freely available book on building/designing Beowulf style clusters. | |
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