[CentOS] Desktop Supercomputer

Rajagopal Swaminathan raju.rajsand at gmail.com
Sat Jul 17 02:12:14 UTC 2010


Greetings,

On 7/17/10, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote:
> On 07/16/10 11:01 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote:
>
> is your goal a "server" or "supercomputing"?  all that tesla stuff sorta
> says supercomputing, while HA etc says 'server'.
>
> supercomputer clusters eschew HA in favor of having many independent
> compute units in a loose cluster that can tolerate any node dying by
> simply reassigning its last work unit to another node.  only the
> persistent storage (usually a SAN or a clustered file system), and the
> cluster controller needs conventional HA.
>

I was thinking more about a "personal supercomputer in a cloud"

HA is a requirement for cloud. So I guess I have to think further about it.

ideas welcome.

Regards,

Rajagopal



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