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Old 05-31-2012, 04:19 AM   #1
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beowulf cluster

has this been used for folding, was just thinking that it maybe cheaper way to get multi core big adv units.

i would look into it, however i dont have anywhere near enough cash for soemthing like this i an thought some one may have already tryed it
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Old 05-31-2012, 04:46 AM   #2
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I doubt it... that may have been good before cheap AMD Opterons were around. You can build a 64 core system for under $2000 from what I understand.
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F@H doesn't scale across clusters, at least not yet. It only runs in parallel on SMP machines, which in a a quad socket machine can be extremely powerful. You could try something with parallel virtual machine, but that would probably be pretty painful.
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well i may have had a few machine coming to me if u could make use of them. running a big adv would have been the only reason to take them on.
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Old 05-31-2012, 10:52 AM   #5
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OY!!! And I just threw away a LOT of pentium 4 systems How have I not heard of the Beowulf cluster before. Very keen to build one now... :<


http://www.calvin.edu/~adams/research/microwulf/

It looks so appealing
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26gflops that less the phenom II @4ghz, thats only about as much as a stock 4 core these days
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my dual socket workstation pushes 400 Gflops. I'm not sure how much they cost, as the Dual socket SB-E5 boxes are only just coming for sale.
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