OK, then what is a "supported distro?". I thought this meant a distro to install OSCAR on. So, how is OSCAR different from RocksCluster?
TIA, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math & CS Baldwin SHS & Nassau CC http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 Sent from my iPod On Jul 23, 2010, at 9:57 PM, Chuck Ritter <cfr...@psu.edu> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 7:46 PM, A. Jorge Garcia <calcp...@aol.com> > wrote: >> >> My students want to try out OSCAR next year. Does it only work with >> RHEL or CentOS or Scientific Linux? >> > > The list of supported distributions is here: > > http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar/wiki/DistroSupport > > As of oscar 6.0, debian is supported. Problem is... version 6 > currently does not really do as much in way of managing your cluster > as version 5 did. > >> We have 25 dual-core AMD Athlons on a gigabit ethernet LAN and each >> box >> is running Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit right now. I'd like to try a >> clustering >> solution that can be installed over what we have already installed. >> Can this be done with OSCAR? > > I'm not sure what you mean by "over what we have already installed". > Oscar is a node imaging tool. If you do not want to reimage the > compute nodes, oscar is not what you want. > > --- > --- > --- > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-users mailing list > Oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list Oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
