[Beowulf] 1 multicore machine cluster

[Greg Lindahl]

On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 10:40:28AM +0200, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:

> well the term leaf node is already used in the irc environment. also
> couldnt one consider a core on a multicore processor a node as well or
> not since its using share resources for one processor?

Guys, this is not rocket science. All of these references are to
a network node.

For IRC, the network is the Internet.

For a cluster, the network is ethernet or IB or whatever.

In the Linux NUMA kernel example, the network is HyperTransport or QPI
or NUMAlink.

If someone uses "nodes" when talking about a Linux cluster, the
meaning is pretty clear, even if the boxes are NUMA.

-- greg