Table of Contents
Which Node for Your Cluster?
Outline of Talk
Cluster Projects at Argonne
Argonne Alpha Cluster (Huxley)
Chiba City
Chiba City System Details
PPT Slide
Some Node Interconnect Options
Example: 320-host Clos topology of 16-port switches
Node Issues
Processor Comparisons
Benchmark Results (SPEC95baseline)
PPT Slide
PPT Slide
Motherboards and Chipsets (see www.motherboard.org)
Your Chipset Determines
Northbridge and Southbridge
Slots, Sockets and Caches
Some Cluster Node Options
Intel Pentium III
IA-32 Willamette Demo’d @ 1.5 GHz
AMD Athlon v Pentium III
AMD K7/Athlon (www.amd.com)
Compaq Alpha 21264/21364
Intel IA-64
Intel IA-64 Building Blocks
Future IBM PowerPC (Power4)
IBM’s Power4
General Observations
Conclusions