I find a lot of people are starting to build demonstration clusters on a small scale with some sort of minimal ‘enterprise’ network. In my case the enterprise network is my home router and the private network is a little 5 port GigE switch. To make it a bit more realistic and to be able to test configurations...

The following posts are exact copies of original entries to the "Chronicles of a Cluster Trouleshooter" Blog on the previous Windowshpc portal site. I added the author's name in the beginning of each entry and edited the posting dates to reflect the original date of the entry. Michael Cole Project...

Chronicles of a Cluster Troubleshooter Volume One #1 Date: October 5, 2007 Issue: Performance of application, Eclipse, on Windows Compute Cluster Server V1 is below that of the same application run on the same hardware on Linux. Hardware Platform: HP Proliant DL140 cluster with Voltaire InfiniBand...