Greetings! Is there any interest in packaging bproc for Debian?
Take care, Kaveh Moallemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I don't think that you should need to change distributions just to setup > bproc, I found the installation of bproc quite simple. We have a small > educational cluster at school and we've been using bproc for several > months now. It lends it self really well for a diskless setup and as a > bonus LAM/MPI can integrate with bproc so that MPI applications could also > run on top of it. I think that you would be pleased with Bproc. > > BTW, it took us less than a day to convert our "traditional" cluster into > a Bproc one. > > Best of luck, > > -- > > ''''' ''''' ''''' > ( . . ) ( . . ) ( . . ) > ---oo0-(_)-0oo---oo0-(_)-0oo---oo0-(_)-0oo--- > > Kaveh Moallemi > School of Computer Science > Ryerson University > Toronto, Canada > > > >From: Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: Camm Maguire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >CC: Andrew Piskorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED],Debian > >Beowulf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Re: [Beowulf] how useful is bproc, and what does Scyld cost? > >Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 16:50:20 -0400 > > > >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] > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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]
