The Folding forums have a couple of beowulf threads. The general consensus is that you need a GB lan and lots of memory to keep the work unit writes from overwhelming the bandwidth of your network.
SMP works well with multiple cores on a chip since the bandwidth is so great. Thrashing is a very real problem as bottlenecks develop across the network.
You will not get anywhere near full performance, but the points bonus alone may make it worthwhile.
It can’t hurt to experiment. Keep us posted.
F@H is now outputting 1249 teraFLOPS, or 1.25 petaFLOPs.
The PS3 is at 985 teraFLOPs, and may hit 1 petaFLOP by itself next week.
Amazing!
Also, klutz will hit 6 million points this week. lrenh will hit 3 million points next week, Malsua will hit 2 million points in a couple of weeks and dbender5555 will break 200,000 points this week.
BTW, DU hit 6 million points as a team last month. At this rate klutz will pass their entire team in a few months.
Well the power failure and misc problems have put the Mini-Wulf on hold for the forseeable future.
However, a new surprise this morning. The SMP client I’m running on some windows boxes has expired. Looks like I’m slowly getting notice at different points in time. Will have to deal with that this week as well.
Joseph