[Beowulf] cluster softwares supporting parallel CFD computing

[Bogdan Costescu]

On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, Mark Hahn wrote:

> 100 Hz scheduler ticks might make sense

Please don't mention this to beginners (which is the impression that 
the original message left me) - if they care enough to search the 
information available on the subject they will either make their own 
mind or come back here to ask a specific question...

Higher scheduler frequency was demanded, among others, by network 
developers who see the backlog run at this frequency - when this is 
too low, the network latency in certain situations increases which is 
undesired for most cluster applications.

IMHO, low scheduler frequency is probably only good for mostly 
computational jobs (f.e. Monte Carlo style) where such latency doesn't 
matter and the small amount of time saved due to the lower number of 
context switches is used for real computations.

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Bogdan Costescu

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