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    Cost-Effective Clustering

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    Small Beowulf clusters can effectively serve as personal or group supercomputers. In such an environment, a cluster can be optimally designed for a specific problem (or a small set of codes). We discuss how theoretical analysis of the code and benchmarking on similar hardware lead to optimal systems.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures (one in color). Color version of paper to be published as part of proceedings of CCP2000 (Brisbane) in a special isssue of Computer Physics Communication
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