-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 17/09/12 07:52, Jeffrey Rossiter wrote:
> I am getting started on a cluster building project at my > university. We just replaced all of our lab machines so I am going > to be using the old machines to rebuild our cluster. I'd suggest that you also want a way to manage the cluster as an entity, we use xCAT for this and it's open source: http://xcat.sourceforge.net/ It's got a very active mailing list and active development. > The intention is for the system to be used for scientific > computation. I am trying to decide on a linux distribution to use. > Does it matter all that much? If you're going to be using commercial codes then you probably want something that's Red Hat or a rebuild (CentOS or Scientific Linux). cheers! Chris - -- Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative Email: [email protected] Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 http://www.vlsci.org.au/ http://twitter.com/vlsci -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlBids4ACgkQO2KABBYQAh/y5gCdERjXNJEqEVb3yHr1eyJe4WzA zjMAnRrcu5c5jAYSZqeyg7v4+Mwzv7yE =LDMb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
