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Physical Infrastructure

OK, so you've worked your way through the first umpty-chapters of this book (and possibly the Sterling, Salmon, Becker and Savarese book, and the HOWTO's, and the FAQ) and have picked a beowulf architecture. You've probably priced it out, as well, as cost-benefit was undoubtedly an important part of your selection criteria. You are probably almost ready to order the parts...

First, however, there are a few things you might not have thought about yet that you definitely need to consider11.1. Let's arrange them in a bulleted checklist (to see what they all are) and then we'll briefly discuss each one.

``Hmmm,'' you say. ``Spent so long thinking about the programs and the node hardware that I forgot about the physical requirements of all those nodes.'' I thought so. Let's take them in order.



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Robert G. Brown 2003-05-12