On Monday 01 March 2004 8:13 am, Khamenia, Valery wrote:
Hi All,
Google shows some positive info about clusters on AMD64. However this maillist contains no feedbacks about clusters successfully running at AMD64 SUSE.
Is here anybody alive who has managed to setup such a cluster based on SUSE-AMD64?
We have 2 Opteron clusters in house that we use for R+D. (SLES8). One of which is open to anyone who wants to do benchmarking (http://quad.bris.ac.uk) There are no real issues with Opteron clusters - just install a standard SuSE distro, enable rsh et al and install something like MPICH. Indeed there is even an NPACI ROCKS distribution for AMD64. We also have several customers are starting to deploy quite large Opteron clusters with our QsNet II Interconnect. One of the nice things about Opteron over say Xeon or IA64 is that the memory subsytem allows the MPI latancy to be particualrly low (we measure 1.87 microseconds between a pair of nodes.) Yours, Daniel. -------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Dan Kidger, Quadrics Ltd. daniel.kidger@quadrics.com One Bridewell St., Bristol, BS1 2AA, UK 0117 915 5505 ----------------------- www.quadrics.com --------------------