NDLI: The Bladed Beowulf: a cost-effective alternative to traditional Beowulfs

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Feng, W. Warren, M. Weigle, E.
Copyright Year	2002
Description	Author affiliation: Adv. Comput. Lab., Los Alamos Nat. Lab., NM, USA (Feng, W.)
Abstract	We present a new twist to the Beowulf cluster - the Bladed Beowulf. In contrast to traditional Beowulfs which typically use Intel or AMD processors, our Bladed Beowulf uses Trans-meta processors in order to keep thermal power dissipation low and reliability and density high while still achieving comparable performance to Intel- and AMD-based clusters. Given the ever increasing complexity of traditional supercomputers and Beowulf clusters; the issues of size, reliability power consumption, and ease of administration and use will be "the" issues of this decade for high-performance computing. Bigger and faster machines are simply not good enough anymore. To illustrate, we present the results of performance benchmarks on our Bladed Beowulf and introduce two performance metrics that contribute to the total cost of ownership (TCO) of a computing system - performance/power and performance/space.
Sponsorship	IEEE Comput. Soc. Task Force on Cluster Comput. (TFCC)
Starting Page	245
Ending Page	254
File Size	2567023
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769520669
DOI	10.1109/CLUSTR.2002.1137753
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2002-09-26
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Costs Laboratories Supercomputers Hardware Energy consumption Software tools Linux Astrophysics Power dissipation Measurement
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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