pirani1 Posted November 3, 2003 Share Posted November 3, 2003 Hi all, I'm planning to buy a new HP workstation zx6000 dual itanium 900Mhz, I ask you if I need to install a specific linux distro or I can put my beloved Slack (9.0) without problem ? HP want to send me a preconfigured machine with "RedHat Advanced Workstation". But I want to know if there's a possiblity to stay away from the "red cap" . Currently I've a mini cluster of 3 machines Athlon XP 2000 with Slack 9.0 and installed Houdini ,PRman 5.5 and Shake 3.0 and everything work fine. Cheers Enrico Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meshsmooth Posted November 3, 2003 Share Posted November 3, 2003 now I don Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pirani1 Posted November 4, 2003 Author Share Posted November 4, 2003 Yes, I know. But the benchmarks on povray really impressed me. If you look at the perfotmance of Itanium 2 (single processor) copared to the parallel >2 cpus you can get an idea of this amazing cpu. http://www.haveland.com/index.htm?povbench/index.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted November 4, 2003 Share Posted November 4, 2003 Any good links to instructions on setting up multiple comps to work in parallel? You've peaked my intrest in clusters. I want to read more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pirani1 Posted November 5, 2003 Author Share Posted November 5, 2003 Assuming you have a basilar network knowledge and a network of two or more PC, all you have to do is install the PVM libs on the server node . You'll find the libs and detailed book on-line from MIT press in which you'll find out how to configure your nodes. http://www.netlib.org/pvm3/index.html P.S. One advice is to buid an homogenous system. I mean a system with 10 P III 12 AMD 1800 can perform worst than a system with 4 identical XP-2000. So forget to refurbish some old PC thinking to get a supercomputing machine at bargaine. Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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