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To: Robert who wrote (21655)	10/23/1999 6:10:00 PM
From: paul	Read Replies (1) of 64865

Robert, can you elaborate more on what Beowulf is? I recall something about it being a academic project where they clustered a large number of PC's with Linux. my contentions: Having a single large SMP is much easier to scale - you can start with a small number of cpu's and add cpu's as your needs require - no break or change in the OS, application, administration, etc... single SMP is much more manageable - managing a complex of 64 PC's doesnt sound like fun to me (synch os, apps, patches, etc..) - do you get a single file system image with beowulf? Beowulf is an academic project suitable for the HPC/academic world - RAS isnt really an issue - Commercial and HPC use rarely have similar goals - as a "proof of concept" beowulf sounds interesting though.

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