On Apr 28, 2009, at 1:29 PM, Ankush Kaul wrote:
I would like to know one more thing, what are real life applications that i can use the cluster for (except mathematical computation)? Can i use if for my web server, if yes then how?
Not really. MPI is just about message passing -- it's frequently used for parallel computations, but it's main purpose in life is message passing. Hence, applications have to explicitly be written to use MPI's API. Apache doesn't utilize MPI for communication; there are other features for clustering web servers, etc.
-- Jeff Squyres Cisco Systems
