There's also pretty complete community-maintained documentation at http://wiki.debian.net/ with the relevant material at http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?DebianBeowulf
On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 15:41, Camm Maguire wrote: > Greetings! No direct experience with diskless setups, but all the > cluster applications I need work out of the box on Debian. There are > even precompiled atlas libraries for several common cpu > subarchitectures. We've been running ours for about 7 years -- 1 > software install, 3 hardware upgrades, and nothing but 'apt-get > upgrade' since. > > Take care, > > Andrew Piskorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm tentatively planning a small cluster that might or might not > > actually get built. My current plan is somewhere from 5-20 nodes, 1-2 > > x86 CPUs per node (exact CPU flavor undecided), gigabit ethernet, and > > all nodes either entirely diskless, or using 1 IDE disk solely for > > swap and /tmp. > > > > I would prefer to have as much as posible of the cluster software > > infrastructure Just Work, rather than having to spend lots of time > > rolling my own. (I will be spending enough time on the custom > > software I actually want to RUN on the cluster as is.) I am, of > > course, quite willing to select hardware in order to make the software > > job easier on myself. > > > > Since I want to go diskless anyway, so far I am also leaning towards a > > bproc based cluster. I only know of two bproc-based cluster > > distributions, Scyld and Clustermatic. Scyld is commerical and costs > > money, Clustermatic is not and does not. Are there any others? In > > particular, are there any Debian based systems that play nicely out of > > the box with bproc? > > > > How much time and effort is Scyld actually going to save me over using > > Clustermatic? How much is either going to save me over completely > > rolling my own, preferably using Debian rather than the old and > > outdated versions of Red Hat that Scyld and Clustermatic seem to use? > > Also, are there any major drawbacks or snafus I should worry about in > > going down the bproc route? > > > > Finally, just what DOES Scyld actually cost? Can anyone give me a > > rough idea? > > > > >From Scyld's website, I can't tell whether they charge 50 cents or > > $5,000 per node, and the Scyld/Penguin salesman seemed unable to spit > > out any kind of ballpark price at all. AFAICT, Scyld seems to expect > > you to first actually build your cluster, and then send them your > > cluster's complete hardware specs, down to the smallest detail, in > > order to get any kind of quote! > > > > Thanks! -Adam P. GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Welcome to the best software in the world today cafe! http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/The_Best_Stuff_In_The_World_Today_Cafe.ogg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
