We have a 64 node cluster entire based on FreeBSD 5.1 for high performance computing at the Federal University of Alagoas (http://www.typhon.ufal.br). It has 36 Dell Pentium IV 2.4GHz nodes and 36 Gateway Atlhon 1GHz using a fast-ethernet network (the peak performance for Dell machines, measured with xhpl, is 37 Gflops).
Applications may use MPI for inter-process communication. For the cluster management we are testing the Ganglia (http://ganglia.sourceforge.net) and for scheduling the Maui (http://supercluster.org/maui).
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Rayson Ho wrote:
A very good paper about building HPC clusters with FreeBSD:
"Building a High-performance Computing Cluster Using FreeBSD"
http://people.freebsd.org/~brooks/papers/bsdcon2003/
The author talked about hardware issues: KVM, BIOS redirection, CPU choices; and then talked about why he chose FreeBSD instead of Linux... he also did the port of GridEngine (SGE) to FreeBSD.
Anyone tried to setup HPC clusters with *BSD??
Rayson
--- Fernan Aguero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Any FreeBSD users willing to share clustering experiences out there?
Fernan
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