Post #2152685
2026-05-06 20:46 UTC
@davefischer
Since this is #RetroComputing - "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those"!
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@keithpjolley@discuss.systems 2026-05-06 23:34
@JBrianCoyle @davefischer our cluster ran platform's lsf. mostly it was stuff like u60s but we had a row or two e450s and a handful of 4500s. every once in a while we'd need to use finance's 6800, 10k, or 15k, after we paid to max them out. we maxed out the CPUs in the enterprise servers so we could max out the memory and then run a single threaded job for weeks at a time praying nothing went wrong because it was the last step before going to market. this was for chip design. we had a beowulf cluster, or two or three, as poc in lab on machines running linux but it never got put in production.