On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 20:35, John V. Greep wrote: > I built one at SAIT as one of my projects. My project page is at > http://onix.homeip.net/sait/APSE503/ > > We built it using SUSE. S�bastien is right about packages available that make > it easy. >
Well I guess I should pipe up as I sell clusters for a Living. S�bastien is correct that there are linux packages designed for building beowulf clusters. Now they may be easy to install but they won't be the most current software available. I know that SCYLD will let you demo their older version for free but to be frank their newest version is fully of 2 year old software most of which is open source. Oscar is a fair package of Beowulf software but we still found it lacking. Now for our benefit the easier we make the install for the end user who doesn't necessarily understand Linux that well the better. As such we developed our own Linux Cluster Distribution which will install on top of a Red Hat 7.3 install. I understand we will be doing some beta testing of this software so if someone is interested I could probably get you on our beta list. The Beta will be mostly to test our install and gui management tools as the current versions of Bproc, MPICH, etc are fairly stable already. In fact, Universities of Western Ontario, Toronto and PEI are using our software on clusters we have built. Though they do have an earlier version which doesn't have all the gui management tools included yet.
