With all of our layoffs, be have an abundance of spare Digital PW433au's. I have convinced my boss to loan a pair to the local university, Indiana Institute of Technology (IIT) where I teach. It will be a student led project to get a single Master & Slave cluster going. If they can do this, they get more. Probably a maximum of 10 nodes with primary and secondary masters.
Unfortunatley, I am extremely interested in this but have not had time to participate or help with research. They basically need 2 things. Suggestions/advice on configuration and management tools, and suggestions/advice on what to do with it when it's finished. Right now, they're thinking of letting it be used by SETI. The other issue - which distro. I gave them copies of RH7.2 when I gave them the hardware. But the student who is leading it wants to use Debian. Does anyone have experience to say which would be better interms of the clustering software available? I've read great things about Scyld's cluster software, but it looks like it's only x86 and I couldn't find the source to download. Right now I'm reading the references on www.lcic.org. Thanks in advance. ---- Terry Bowling Verizon NOTD Systems Support 260.461.3772
