On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 05:15:38PM +1200, Paul Gardner wrote: > > Hi All, > > I have to give a talk on thurs 12pm (NZST) that justifies the expense of > purchasing 128 PentiumIVs for a BioCluster at our weekly Research Group > meeting. > > I already know a bit about using the MPI compiler and PBS queuing system. > What I'm really interested in is the solutions BioClusters are currently > being used for. Any URLs, papers, and/or suggestions would be greatly > appreciated. Shouldn't you be buying the computers for the actual problem at hand? Not buy the computers first, and then look for problems to solve. If you got $256,000 budget, then consider buying 1 dual-AthlonMP 2000+ with 1Gig RAM first, and see how you like it? -- William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry@yahoo.ca> 8 CPU cluster, NAS, (Slackware) Linux, Python, LaTeX, Vim, Mutt, Tin