[Ilugc] Startup Orion offers ready-to-go Linux cluster
- From: rsubr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Raja Subramanian)
- Date: Tue Aug 31 10:34:16 2004
Hi,
Sivasankar Chander wrote:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18160
Some time ago, I saw a demo of a similar box containing 8 Celeron nodes
interconnected with 1G ethernet all running customised redhat. All
except the master node were diskless and it had some slick software that
booted and managed the diskless nodes - you could power on/off the nodes
on demand from software, etc. Would be interesting to see what the
Orion contains.
(12 x Transmeta 1 GHz CPUs in a pizza-box for $10k sounds attractive,
I can't believe they chose Transmeta for a HPC box. Transmeta CPUs have
a history sacrificing performance for low power consumption. The VIA
C3s would have been a better option. Or wait until the desktop versions
of the Pentium-M is launched next quarter.
until you realize that you can get a dual Opteron 240 + Tyan Tiger
for $1k that's going to blow away the Orion on any large-dataset
problem that's not parallelizable, i.e. about 99% of the engineering/
scientific applications available. And the Opteron is 64-bit and
I can buy it in Ritchie St.)
Ah! The joys of purchasing commodity hardware :-)
Just want to add that the Tyan Tiger is an exceptionally good product
line. Starting with the dual AMD MP systems 2 years ago, Tiger has
offered server class features (64bit pci, ECC RAM, dual CPU, dual
onboard ethernet, etc) at affordable prices. Perfect combination for
AMD and an excellent alternative to Xeon + Serverworks.
Nice article, thanks for posting.
- Raja
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