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[Adam Young <ayoung@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/30/2012 10:22 AM, Reza Bakhshayeshi wrote:
> Hi
>
> I want to run HPCC benchmark on OpenStack cloud, I want you to help me 
> to make the results more real.
> How can we impute the results to OpenStack and not to my computers?
> Do I really need a server farm to perform the test?
> And I think I have to run for example HPL on running instances and not 
> on the main servers, is this correct?
>
> Please suggest me more rules and conditions.
>
> Best Regards
>
>
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You need to to an apples-to-apples comparison.  Using the same hardware, 
and a different deployment mechanism, perhaps Rocks.
https://wiki.rocksclusters.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

You need a low latency interconnect, like Infiniband in order for the 
results to really mean much more than "Yes it runs."