Building a High-Performance Cluster with Gentoo

Building a High-Performance Cluster with Gentoo

Posted Apr 11, 2007 0:36 UTC (Wed) by dberkholz (subscriber, #23346)
In reply to: Building a High-Performance Cluster with Gentoo by drag
Parent article: Building a High-Performance Cluster with Gentoo

I haven't seen anything real formal, and I agree it needs to be done. But here's one example of RHEL vs Gentoo:

http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-cluster@lists.gentoo.o...

I tried to sum up the results at http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-cluster@lists.gentoo.o... by saying:

"Yeah, from the numbers it looks as if it would be dependent on the
purpose of the cluster whether OS X or Gentoo would do better. On ppc,
Gentoo does poorly on the first two benchmarks and also on context
switching. On x86, the first two are more comparable with RH, but the
others, Gentoo has a small to large advantage over RH, just as on ppc."

And the post at http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-cluster@lists.gentoo.o... explains why the first two benchmarks may be synthetic.

Of course as you mention, benchmarks of real-world applications are really what we need, not just running a benchmark suite.

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