Hi, my home institute has bought (for me) a cluster of 4 nodes with the special-purpose hardware called GRAPE; it's for astrophysical simulations. The cards (the GRAPEs) just calculate the gravitational forces and accelerate the calculations a lot. In parallel the cluster can achieve a peak performance of 0.5 Teraflops.
This is the GRAPE card http://www.metrix.co.jp/grape6A.html Now... I'd like to install OpenBSD on the cluster, of course... all I need is in the OS. But our IT department is not that happy... they want a debian and I'm very crossed. According to them, there aren't any drivers for the Raid Controller... Is that true? Thanks, Pau
