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I would like to build a new cluster to perform heavy mathematical calculations in Matlab and Abaqus. One of my friend told me that distributed computing is way faster than parallel computing, which is very true after reading a bit on the internet. However, I have never clustered before.

Current workstation I own:

Dell Precision T5400 2 x Intel Xeon 2.5 GHz 16 GB RAM (2GB x 8) 1 x Western Digital 1TB HDD 7200 rpm 1 x nVidia Quadro FX4600 768MB GPU 1 x 870W PSU

OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

2nd WS: I can buy another WS similar configuration to the one I own

I am not bothered about OS, I am willing to cluster with either Windows or Linux. However, my software are compatible with windows 64-bit only. Please help me setup a cluster. Thank you.

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Muhammad, since you say you want to build a cluster for (among other things) Matlab, I suggest following Mathworks' MATLAB Distributed Computing Server documentation. Mathworks charges extra for the software to make this happen. This process uses Matlab itself to distribute work among different machines.

I am not familiar with Abaqus.

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