RAID controller question...

[Greg Lindahl]

> I thought that the idea of the original Beowulf was to use many
> processors with a disk or two per CPU, with the goal of achieving bigher
> aggregate bandwidth than the alternative configuration of many disks per
> CPU.

Sure. But this thread was being cross-posted to the Extreme Linux
list.

My cluster has 2 disks per CPU, and I have parallel file gizmos in
Legion that let me use them in all sorts of interesting ways...
striping and mirroring on a per-file basis.

-- greg