On Tuesday 10 January 2006 17:28, Rony Bill wrote:
At present, I don't have any spare hardware. I thought some of the list members are actually using clusters for their graphics work so if they could post a brief overall view of their system, that would help too. Right now I need to get some idea first of the whole setup. If it is a confidential company matter for those members, then no problem.
As per your estimate, what would be the cluster hardware equivalent for the following system below.
AMD Athlon X2 4200 (Dual Core). Asus A8N SLI Premiun. ( Has 2 x 1 GBit LANs) 2 x 1 GB DDR RAM. 2 x 160 GB SATA HDD with 8 MB cache. Leadtek Nvidia Quadro FX 3450 with 256 mb DDR RAM. Decklink extreme video edit card. Can handle multiple video and audio inputs and outputs with 10bit resolution. 2 Monitors for split screen. Cabinet with 500w SMPS.
U need three specs rather the pointless things abv for evaluation. cpu-mem bandwidth, Cpu to Northbridge link speed for disk bandwidth (mostly not useful in clusters) and Cpu to South bridge link speed for the PCI bandwidth. One presumes the memory modules and pci cards are fast enough to cope. The graphics port on the north bridge will remain unused. Mobo without on board graphics would be much better as it will run cooler. Disabling graphics might not reduce power.