[Beowulf] ECC  Reuti reuti at staff.uni-marburg.de Sun Nov 4
10:11:35 PST 2012  Am 04.11.2012 um 19:06 schrieb Jörg
Saßmannshausen:  > Hi all, > I agree with Vincent regarding EEC,
I think it is really mandatory for a  > cluster which does
number crunching. > However, the best cluster does not help if
the deployed code does not have a  > test suite to verify the
installation.  ...and any update/patch. Once you upgrade the
kernel and/or libraries the test suite has to be run again.  --
Reuti  > Believe me, that is not an expection, I  > know a
number of chemistry codes which are used in practise and there
is not  > test suite, or the test suite is broken and it
actually says on the code's  > webpage: don't bother using the
test suite, it is broken and we know it. > So you need both:
good hardware _and_ good software with a test suite to  >
generate meaningful results. If one of the requirements is not
met, we might  > as well throw a dice which is cheaper ;-) > All
the best from a wet London > Jörg > On Sonnta