Romulo M. Cholewa wrote:
>
> The main idea is to build the HPC with IBM BladeCenter. We want to start
> with 6 nodes / blades, each one with 4 to 6 GB of RAM, 2 * Intel QC 2,66 GHz
> (3550).
> .. Should we start with infiniband / myrinet and local disks, or blades with
> 2 * 1 Gbps Ethernet and remote storage (SAN), without local disks ?
> if anyone have any URLs
> pointing to relevant info, it would be great.
InfiniBand is well worth while, unless your applications are limited to
those with little dependency on MPI performance. Openmpi, Intel MPI, HP
MPI are more widely supported bases for IB support.
An adequate parallel file system seems overkill for a small cluster.
http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/articles/eng/1311.htm
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