Archive for May, 2003

how available is my cluster?

Friday, May 16th, 2003

While preparing to work on smash, a “brute force” parallelization program, I spent a little time thinking about how we’re calculating what I called the “availability index” of each host in the cluster. Looking into the data available, we have the following to work with:

bogomips, a rough number calculated by the kernel, which we […]

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