Q: ATM Beowulf

[Rafael Angel Garcia Leiva]

Hi everybody,

I am planning to build a cluster (around 300 nodes) for Monte-Carlo 
simulation. I will run the same program, but with different input data files, 
on each node. I expect that the computation time is much greater than 
communication time, and that I will have to transfer large amount of (input 
and output) data files from working nodes to the master server.

Does make sense to use LAN emulation over ATM for this kind of clusters? Has 
anyone experimented with ATM interconnections? Do you think is it 
cost-effective today (specially compared to Fast / Gigabit Ethernet)?

Thanks in advance.

-- 
Rafael Angel Garcia Leiva
Universidad Autonoma Madrid
http.//www.uam.es/angel.leiva
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