August 2007 - Posts
So, here are a few hints for those willing to try infiniband on Windows: Install Server 2003 SP2: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=08fec2f5-6e3b-4e0d-9314-646414d0a421&displaylang=en Install Server 2003 SP2! Did I mention 2003
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Low-latency links are important for message-passing (MPI) applications. Typically several instances of the same MPI process will run on different nodes and depend on data passed from other nodes to complete their computation. Latency is therefore one
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Yet another common scenario: you want to avoid using RIS and have other applications that deploy a "golden image" of the operating system. All you need is a programmatic way of installing compute cluster pack. Well, I use this script - for which I claim
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I found a good article by John McRae on deploying Compute Cluster with Windows Deployment Service here. Although we shipped WDS in Windows Server 2003 SP2 and we use in compute cluster pack SP1, we use it in legacy (RIS) mode. This article describes how
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So, imagine this scenario: you have a rack full of servers that hum along at 20% of capacity, performing "mundane" tasks. Wouldn't it be nice to harness at least part of that remaining computing power for your batch calculations? Wouldn't it be nice to
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