On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Romulo M. Cholewa wrote:
> Now I´m working on the pre-sales side, and couldn´t find any
> documentation about potential system designs.
I think that the beowulf list is more appropriate for this type of
questions. Especially as I see your questions with very little
relevance to LAM/MPI...
> . Should we forget general redundancy in favor of connectivity / bandwidth ?
Have you read anything about redundancy support in LAM/MPI ? There is
very little, if any... In any case, you should first define your
requirements for redundancy and then see if/what support if available.
> . Should we start with infiniband / myrinet and local disks, or blades with
> 2 * 1 Gbps Ethernet and remote storage (SAN), without local disks ?
Have you checked which Infiniband and Myrinet drivers/libraries are
supported by LAM/MPI before asking yourself whether to add or not the
hardware to your configuration ?
LAM/MPI cares very little about storage; each daemon needs access to
/tmp (or some other place which you can choose) but it's only for
keeping some state, nothing I/O intensive.
> I think these are rather newbie questions, so if anyone have any
> URLs pointing to relevant info, it would be great.
Well, http://www.lam-mpi.org/faq/ would be a great place to start ;-)
FWIW, you should also look at Open MPI: http://www.open-mpi.org/
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