Hello OSCAR friends. I don't know if you all know this, but I'm running a clustering workshop down here in Cape Town this week and tomorrow we plan to build an OSCAR cluster for demonstraton purposes. Since we have SATA drives in some of our demo machines, we can't use the 2.4 kernel without serious hacks, so the next best thing I guess would be to try Fedora Core 3. I know that OSCAR-4 and FC 2 go nicely together, but 1) I have not tried to build an OSCAR+Fedora cluster yet (last attempt was OSCAR-3 + RH9) 2) The subversion repository in Indiana (right?) is super-duper slow to access from Cape Town.
My questions are 1) Is it feasible to build an OSCAR-4 + FC3 cluster in a morning ? We have really hardcore hardware, since IBM and AMD are sponsoring the workshop - 3x 1U rackmount Intel Xeon pizza boxes, 2 IDE drives each (onboard GBE Intel NIC) with 2x SCSI drive per rackmount unit. 3x Dual AMD Opteron boxes with onboard Intel GBE (1x SATA drive per box) >From your experience, what issues should I take into account before showing the audience how cool OSCAR is ? My other question is : Could someone put a tarball of a snapshot of OSCAR-4 someplace on a webpage so that I could download it and build it ? The IBM HQ here only can give me a windoze box to access the outside world and I couldn't figure out how to get a subversion client to work on it..... Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Becker UCT-CERN Research Center - University of Cape Town Private Bag RONDEBOSCH 7700 tel :(w) +27 21 650 3356 | (m) +27 82 537 9425 | (f) +27 21 650 3342 IM : AIM/Jabber - brucellino | Yahoo - uctbruce WEB :http://hep.phy.uct.ac.za/~becker "Viel hilft viel" ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
