Hi Michele.
Not sure if I 100% understand what you try to do, but I wouldn't think
that Globus is what you'd use initially.
Did you have a look at Condor (http://research.cs.wisc.edu/condor/)? I
never tried it myself, but that can be used to bring together desktop
machines into a cluster.
After that, if you wanted and have a reason to, you could connect it to
Globus and use Globus to submit jobs to it. But Condor comes with it's
own submission tools, so that might not be necessary.
Cheers,
Markus
On 24/04/12 00:24, Michele Lora wrote:
Dear all,
this is my first post on this list, so I'll introduce myself: I'm a
graduate student at the department of Computer Science of the
University of Verona (Italy) and has a project we are planning to
built up a system for distributed high performance computation.
The main idea of this project will be to re-use the existing
infrastructure, formed by three laboratories, normally used for
didactic activities (for a total of ca. 250 PCs) in order to use the
unused computational power of these machines. We've also a strong
constraint: all the machines must run, as operating system, an Ubuntu
10.04 distribution.
On this system should run MPI applications and the idea was to use
Globus Toolkit and we've tried to follow the documentation on the web
site but without any success.
Does anyone have some good advice to give me? Some
documentation/tutorial to suggests? We're a couple of student working
on this, and we're both new to this field!
Thanks a lot for every suggestion,
Michele.
