Beowulf on Sparc

[Josip Loncaric]

Raul Romero Wells wrote:
> 
> Easy, as a Sun's dealer said: "you can instal Sun's linux on it..."
> 
> Scott.Brown at aventis.com wrote:
> 
> > This may seem to be a stupid question, pardon my ignorance. I'm looking for
> > information on building Beowulf clusters with ultra sparc hardware. Any
> > information would be greatly appreciated.

Clusters do not require Linux -- in fact, a nice Solaris cluster was
recently built at William & Mary:

http://www.compsci.wm.edu/SciClone/

SciClone is a heterogeneous cluster, using 64 Ultra 5 (single CPU
machines), 32+6 Ultra 60 (dual CPU machines), 4 Enterprise 420R servers
(quad CPU each) and an Ultra 60 front end machine.  This is a rich
environment designed to support a wide variety of research activities.

Sincerely,
Josip

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