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Title: Building a Supercomputer
Post by: silenthunder on October 07, 2012, 07:16:27 AM

I plan to start building a supercomputer soon with the aid of a few people who are pretty new to the "real" world of computers. I'm not sure quite yet of what OS I want to run on it, however the technique I plan to use as far as the architecture of the supercomputer is Beowulf Clustering, however I don't have much knowledge on, except for what I can dig up on Google.

Does anybody here have any first-hand knowledge, or any other type of knowledge of supercomputers, Beowulf clustering or other (possibly easier) techniques, tips, resources, or any of the such?

Title: Re: Building a Supercomputer
Post by: Uriah on October 07, 2012, 08:34:53 AM

I don't think I understand. You want to build the hardware for a super computer, or put together pre made hardware for it? And you have very little knowledge of super computers in the first place?
Sorry I can't help you here I have little knowledge of how to do either, but I think that either way this is a pointless project with how little of the subject your team seems to understand...


EDIT: My bad I understand what you are saying now, i should have looked up what the clustering technique you mentioned was before I said anything. I would think that your team would still have to understand the the "real world of computers" but I suppose that it would be far less complicated than I had thought. I still don't have enough knowledge to help you on this, but good luck and sorry for my initial response.

Title: Re: Building a Supercomputer
Post by: Pak_Track on October 07, 2012, 09:43:25 AM

nuff said
https://www.google.de/search?q=how+to+build+a+supercomputer&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=fflb

Title: Re: Building a Supercomputer
Post by: silenthunder on October 07, 2012, 11:19:20 PM

You're german?

Title: Re: Building a Supercomputer
Post by: techb on October 07, 2012, 11:31:20 PM

http://hackaday.com/2012/09/12/64-rasberry-pis-turned-into-a-supercomputer/ (http://hackaday.com/2012/09/12/64-rasberry-pis-turned-into-a-supercomputer/)

Title: Re: Building a Supercomputer
Post by: Pak_Track on December 21, 2012, 01:57:29 PM

Quote from: silenthunder on October 07, 2012, 11:19:20 PM

You're german?

nope i was actually on a vpn at the time and viewing youtube(its blocked in my country) and decided to drop in

Title: Re: Building a Supercomputer
Post by: parad0x on December 21, 2012, 02:23:22 PM

Hope it'll help. :) :)
http://www.webstreet.com/super_computer.htm (http://www.webstreet.com/super_computer.htm)