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>more in price/performance advantage over e.g. an SP2. If the
>calculations are fine grained (e.g. hydrodynamics, galactic evolution,
>things with long range forces and hence IPC's) then a beowulf still
>might be the way to go but the cost/benefit is less and you'll have to
>work harder to get the benefit. There are definitely problems for which
>the T3E is a better solution than a beowulf, although I personally
>believe that this will change drastically in the next two years.
>
The T3E is still an order of magnitude or so better with respect to
communications bandwidth and latency than Myrinet or Gigabit Ethernet.
I don't think that you'll be able to get that sort of performance
in a Beowulf and still preserve the price/performance ratio in a
two year time frame. (You may be able to get the performance but I
imagine it will cost a bundle).
Regards
Emil
