[Beowulf] If I were specifying a new custer...

Douglas Eadline deadline at eadline.org
Mon Oct 15 07:42:58 PDT 2018


Thanks for all the replies. I may write this up.

One other pointed question.

In general, how much has the Spectere/meltdown issue and Intel
Fab issue effected your decisions of Intel vs AMD?

Or are your decisions still based on performance/price/other
benchmarks?

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Doug

> All:
>
> Over the last several months I have been reading about:
>
> 1) Spectre/meltdown
> 2) Intel Fab issues
> 3) Supermicro MB issues
>
> I started thinking, if I were going to specify a
> single rack cluster, what would I use?
>
> I'm assuming a general HPC workload (not deep learning or
> analytics) I need to choose Xeon/Epyc, IB/Omni,
> Lustre/Ceph/BeGFS, should all nodes have GPU?
>
> I'm interested what members of this list think?
>
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