[Gllug] increase performance by increasing RAM or increasing in Core

[Gary Pownall]

On 16 Feb 2009, at 11:27, John Hearns wrote:

> Hell, why stop there?
> Just run everything in a RAMdisk - then you'll have nothing slowing  
> you down!
>
> And no, I'm not being flippant. This is a common way of runing Beowulf
> clusters - PXE boot into a RAMdisk,
> and Bob's your Uncle. You can NFS mount /usr for all those pesky
> binaries which users want to use.
> You can even swap over iSCSI if you have no physical disks on the  
> nodes.
> (If you have disks you can use them for scratch local files and swap).
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This is getting scary.
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