Greetings! Just a brief plug for Debian here -- we've been using it on our commercial cluster for many years and across several hardware upgrades, and, after the initial installation, never futzing with the software by hand other than 'apt-get install' and/or 'apt-get dist-upgrade'! We're literally running the 'same installation' automatically upgraded via apt through at least 3 or 4 Debian release generations. And the quantity of parallel software available 'out of the box' is enormous! I'll never forget the day I could just 'apt-get install scalapack-lam-dev' and diagonalize huge matrices across the cluster with hardly a hitch. As for the initial installation, some people like FAI, though I have never tried it myself, as I've only had to install once, and that was somewhere around 1995 ....
Take care, Lars Henriksen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 09:56, Per Lindstrom wrote: > > Here I am not running for Slack for its own sake so I will use Slacware > > up to two (2) nodes and when shifting to Debian when I'm connecting the > > remaining nodes. I think it will stop at about 10 CPUs. > > > > Until I have learned to manage Debian I will use the > > "slack-rpm-transfer-tool" and it will be very interesting to benchmark > > the two distros with each other. > > If you want to use Debian as the base distribution, I can recommend > SytemImager as an installation tool. > > http://www.systemimager.org/ > > Sytemimager allows you to replicate an installed client via PXE/rsync to > the remaining nodes. It also allows for updates to be distributed via > rsync. A feature that i really like, is that it allows for the use of > several different images. > > Also it scales pretty well (I had the pleasure of using it in a couple > of 16-32 node configurations, as well as on our own cluster) > > IMO it is the easiest way to deal with smaller clusters (except maybe > CLIC) > > best regards > Lars > -- > Lars Henriksen | MESH-Technologies A/S > Systems Manager & Consultant | Forskerparken 10 > www.meshtechnologies.com | DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | mobile: +45 2291 2904 > direct: +45 6315 7310 | fax: +45 6315 7314 > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > > > -- Camm Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
