Talk About HPC Bang For Your Buck, How About Ka-Boom For The Server Room

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Sep 17, 2010 4:50 PM EDT
Linux Magazine; By Douglas Eadline, Ph.D.
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Reviewing HPC hardware is not easy. You usually need to travel to a data center and look at a rack of servers while someone tells you where they landed on the Top500 list. One could review a server, but basically they are all pretty much the same inside. They are running Linux and use either AMD or Intel processors. In addition, testing a cluster takes time because running meaningful programs that exercise the whole system must be done carefully. And finally, clusters are not sitting on the “shelf” as they vary by customer due to possible packaging, interconnect, processor, and storage choices.

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