I wonder how they measure performance.  I did my thesis work on a Beowulf
Cluster of SMP Linux machines.

The overhead is can be made low when all your processes are running on a single
machine, but when you spread them across the cluster, you start running into
some bottlenecks.

-Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Russell McMahon [mailto:apptech@clear.net.nz]
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 4:54 AM
To: PICLIST@mitvma.mit.edu
Subject: TINA - [OT]: Linux Beowulf Cluster Super Computer using PCs's


Tina - a Beowulf-Super-Computer

        http://tina.nat.uni-magdeburg.de/

Performance specs & entry in Clusters Top 500 list
ie rated as amongst the top 500 most powerful parallel processing systems on
earth.


        http://clusters.top500.org/db/entry.php3?id=93




(I found this one while looking for information on optical head pointing
disability aids  :-) )

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