My students would like to put together a high performance cluster to do some number crunching, fractals, openGL and ray tracing. We've had good experience in the past using PVM, MPI and openMOSIX with C++ and povray. We've even used clusterKNOPPIX, parallelKNOPPIX, BCCD, QUANTIAN and pelicanHPC. But, that was in the world of 32bit....
Welcome to the 64bit univers! We recently fell heir to 25 dual-core AMD Athlons plus 2 quad-core Intel Xeons and have been banging our heads against the wall trying to figure out what do do with all this. Two years ago, we tried to scatter and gather jobs using bash scripts to run povray and C++ jobs to good effect. This year we tried paralleJava and openMPI over Fedora and Centos but didn't get anywhere. We even tried Rocks. Now we have 64bit Ubuntu 10.04 installed on all nodes and like how rock solid it is and how easy it is to maintain. We are wondering what kind of clustering environment we could install over this. Would OSCAR be a good fit? TIA, A. Jorge Garcia http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 Teacher & Professor Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau Community College ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list Oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
