Hi Everyone
I thought I'd post this one here and get a general feel for what people
tend to do given this scenario..
I have some money to spend on servers and have carte blanche to do
whatever I like as I see fit with the budget I have.
This particular group uses statistical genetics software to essentially
crunch through numbers and output a result at the end. Having looked at
a few of the programs they take up 100% processor usage once they kick
off. On the multicore machines they just take over another one of the
idle processors and that similarly runs at 100% until the calculations
are done.
Typically users will log into a free machine and set off an analysis
process - the process has been known to last a couple of weeks on the
bigger chromasomes and datasets in returning all the data they require.
So onto my question - would I be better in linking the machines as a
cluster which is all new to me, or just using separate machines as we
currently do?
The budget will buy six dell quad core opterons PE2970 machines from my
first quote back from dell.
I'm more than happy to read and learn so if anyone has some good links
I'd be grateful, similarly if you run something like this I'd be glad to
hear of your experience.
Thanks
Bryan
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