[Beowulf] Cluster Networking
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Jeff Layton laytonjb at att.netFri Jun 26 11:30:06 PDT 2009
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Dmitry Zaletnev wrote: > Hi, I have two questions: > > 1. Is there any influence on performance of a NFS-server from the usage of x32 CPU and OS instead of x64, if all other characteristics of the system, i.e. amount of RAM, soft-SATA-II RAID 0, Realtek GLAN NIC are the same? > > 2. Is the Etherchannel technology (channel bonding) useful for CFD-application running on a cluster of two Dual-Xeon servers? > CFD codes are usually latency sensitive. So channel bonding doesn't buy you anything and may actually hurt (but just a little). Try something like OpenMX over GigE. Much better latencies and should perform and scale better. Jeff
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