[Linux-cluster] Solution for HPC

Gordan Bobic gordan at bobich.net
Wed Apr 20 08:57:51 UTC 2011


dlugi wrote:
> Hi Gurus,
> 
>    I would like to ask You about something. Since few days I`m preparing 
> 3D fluid simulation. The problem is that my simulation is rendered only 
> on one core. CPU usage provading information that only 1 core is 100% 
> used by process. In my opinion this software doesnt support 
> multithreading thats why everything is calculated on one core.
> 
> Is it possible to build some kind of HPC cluster where this single 
> process could be distributed for several machines ?
> I`m not thinking about dividing this job for several small peaces and 
> distributing them. I`m thinking about infrastructure where single 
> process could use CPU power from several machines at the same time.
> 
> Is it possible to do this on RH or Fedora ?

There is no such thing - period. On any OS. If your application is 
single-process/single-thread, it will only scale vertically.

Gordan




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