Yin and Yang
The NSCA has done some
not-very-novel research: build a
cluster of computers and solve a parallelisable problem on
it. The novelty? Well it runs on NT, so now Microsoft is
crowing that NT is wonderfully scalable. As contributor
Mark Harrison
points out: "I figure if this NT cluster
is using NT Server, which it must if it it is using more
than 10 TCP/IP connections per node (I know nothing about
these parallel systems, but with 124 two-processor nodes,
each node must communicate with more than ten other nodes).
NT server costs a bunch (about $1,000 per licence, I believe),
so the cost is $124,000 for the OS. So much for their
tagline, "High-Performance Supercomputing at Mail-Order
Prices." How about "Save $123,975 on your supercomputer
-- Use Extreme Linux." "
Well... it might be time to help
Ben Elliston who presented his encapsulation of IP in SCSI
in August's Linux Journal
which has a higher throughput than ethernet.
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