Barak, I have setup a cluster of alphas (PC164LX 533Mhz). I maintain the darn thing also. I do not want the job, but as I found it hard to get ANYONE running an alpha beowulf cluster to help me, I offer my assitance whenever possible.
I run Debian on the cluster and would not use anything else. Basically we have a service node where all processes are started and compiled, and 16 compute nodes. I use rsync to keep things inline. Good luck, Lon On 20-Jan-99 Barak Pearlmutter wrote: It looks like a big Linux Beowulf cluster kind of thing is going to be built here at UNM. Hundreds of CPUs, at least. I'd like to convince them to use Debian and 21264s, but that's up in the air. One big issue is finding someone good who could be in charge of systems software for the beast. So, if some Debian developer is - competent to handle the networking setup & benchmarking, PVM, etc - potentially desirous of a job doing said - in Albuquerque New Mexico please drop me a line, as it might result in (1) a job, and (2) a big cluster running Debian. BTW, a cluster of 256 dual-CPU 21264s with a fast disk farm all connected to the national high-speed supercomputer networks could recompile a lot of packages quite quickly. -- Barak A. Pearlmutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, http://www.cs.unm.edu/~bap/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] =============================================================================== Lonnie Sauter http://www.math.ukans.edu/~sauter 315 Snow Hall University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66045 fax (785)864-5255 ===============================================================================