[Beowulf] Are You Ready for "Intel Cluster Ready"

[Geoff Galitz]

Those software requirements are indicative of web servers farms rather
than scientific HPC.

-geoff


> I've heard about it but was expecting it to be like a hardware spec (a la
> PC spec). Rather surprising to see so many software requirements. It's
> sort of understandable why Perl or Python (MPICH2/IntelMPI) are required.
> But Java, Tcl and even Python should be optional. The funny thing is we
> have a cluster which should comply (loads of Intel software) and yet every
> time I update Intel compilers the installers complain the libs are not
> supported (because it's Suse 10.1). Everything works fine. So what?
>
> Igor
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org on behalf of Kevin Ball
> Sent: Wed 27/06/2007 17:30
> To: Douglas Eadline
> Cc: Beowulf at beowulf.org
> Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Are  You Ready for "Intel Cluster Ready"
>
> Wow... they require, on every node:
>
> Java Runtime Environment
> Perl
> Python
> Tcl
> Kitchen Sink*
>
> *(Okay, only figuratively)
>
> But I guess we already knew 'lean and mean' is not something Intel
> thinks about very often.
>
> -Kevin
>
>
> On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 06:30, Douglas Eadline wrote:
>> Intel has announced their new "Cluster Ready"
>> program. I have a short write-up with links on
>> Cluster Monkey.
>>
>> http://www.clustermonkey.net//content/view/204/1/
>>
>> It is an Intel centric spec for clusters. A "good thing"
>> in general I think, though I have concerns. (read the post)
>>
>> Opinions ? (yes a dangerous but worthy question on this list!)
>>
>> --