Small Beowulf clusters can effectively serve as personal or group supercomputers. In such an environment, a cluster can be optimally designed for a specific problem (or a small set of codes). We discuss how theoretical analysis of the code and benchmarking on similar hardware lead to optimal systems.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0112026,
title = {Cost-Effective Clustering},
author = {Steven Gottlieb},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0112026},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
7 pages, 2 figures (one in color). Color version of paper to be published as part of proceedings of CCP2000 (Brisbane) in a special isssue of Computer Physics Communications