On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Gerardo Paredes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes we do intend to use MPI, but i was talking about how to setup the cluster > going through the NFS install, where to put /home, at the NFS server or > locally?, if would be better to install the worker nodes as diskless, > netbooting machines, or can we arrange a setup of fully installed FreeBSD7.0 > workstation to use their resources whenever somebody is not using them? > > I believe this point hasn't been worked enough on the FreeBSD documentation, > as good as the Handbook is, there isn't good documentation on how to setup a > cluster on it.
Not a HOWTO, but I think it is one of the best I have been on HPC clustering on FreeBSD: "Building a High-performance Computing Cluster Using FreeBSD" http://people.freebsd.org/~brooks/papers/bsdcon2003/ You can also read other papers related to the subject at: http://people.freebsd.org/~brooks/papers/ Rayson > > > Gerardo Paredes > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-cluster > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-cluster To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
