On Wed, 26 May 1999, Dylan A. Loomis wrote:
> I haven't been able to find a specific answers to some of these questions in
> the FAQ, so here goes. Will linux with SMP support:
>
> Running with:
> two (2) pentium II
I have three of these running as SMP at my location. One dual-PII is my
fileserver, the second is my mailhost and DNS, and the third is a test box
that sits on my desk. All seem to perform admirably.
> The intended application is a beowulf cluster running MPI.
I've had MPI running on two of the three boxes above. It seemed to
perform well when compared to an HP/Convex Exemplar SPP-2000 with 8
processors. Since the linux boxes were production machines, ie in use
doing file, mail, and print services, I was not able to isolate the two
machines into its own cluster. However, initial tests showed that the
four processor cluster outperformed the HP/Convex running a large
computational program we use here.
Feel free to direct questions to me at one of the addresses listed below.
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