Re: Can anyone recommend a good clustering software?
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 04:17:53PM +0200, Frederik Meerwaldt wrote: Can anyone tell me a clustering software for FreeBSD? PolyServe? No URL, as I'm in the air at the moment, but try a general web search, or look at past announcements on DaemonNews, where it was mentioned a few weeks back. N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Can anyone recommend a good clustering software?
Hi all, as this is a low-level questions, I thought to post it to -hackers. If I'm wrong, tell me. Can anyone tell me a clustering software for FreeBSD? Such as PaRe, just for FBSD??? I don't know one. If possible it should have the following features: * Compatibility with other systems/platforms (NetBSD, Tru64 Unix,...) * Uhm ok. That's the only thing. But if you just tell me some names, that would be cool. Thanks, Freddy To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: Can anyone recommend a good clustering software?
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Frederik Meerwaldt wrote: as this is a low-level questions, I thought to post it to -hackers. If I'm wrong, tell me. Can anyone tell me a clustering software for FreeBSD? Such as PaRe, just for FBSD??? I don't know one. If possible it should have the following features: * Compatibility with other systems/platforms (NetBSD, Tru64 Unix,...) * Uhm ok. That's the only thing. But if you just tell me some names, that would be cool. What's PaRe? -- Gary Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
RE: Can anyone recommend a good clustering software?
First you need to describe what you mean by clustering. It means different things to different people. Charles -Original Message- From: Frederik Meerwaldt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 8:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Can anyone recommend a good clustering software? Hi all, as this is a low-level questions, I thought to post it to -hackers. If I'm wrong, tell me. Can anyone tell me a clustering software for FreeBSD? Such as PaRe, just for FBSD??? I don't know one. If possible it should have the following features: * Compatibility with other systems/platforms (NetBSD, Tru64 Unix,...) * Uhm ok. That's the only thing. But if you just tell me some names, that would be cool. Thanks, Freddy To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: Can anyone recommend a good clustering software?
Hi! What's PaRe? It's a clustering Software for linux. See: http://www.sc.cs.tu-bs.de/pare It's based on BEOWULF AFAIK. Bye, Freddy To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: Can anyone recommend a good clustering software?
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Frederik Meerwaldt wrote: Hi! What's PaRe? It's a clustering Software for linux. See: It looks more like yet another beowulf (but built in a classroom environment) than any coherent distribution of software. Anyway, "clustering software" is meaningless. What does "clustering software" do? Queue and run parallel jobs? Set up a communications medium? Do load balancing or high availability between a set of nodes? All those definitions are correct. FWIW, clustering (in the supercomputing sense) can be very simple if you're only building a cluster for a single researcher or research group. You can pretty much just set up an mpi implementation, or pvm, and an hourly passwd rdist, and call it a cluster. MPI and PVM build on all sorts of platforms, and at least MPICH (and probably PVM) have mechanisms for communicating between programs on different architectures. Things get much more complex when you start trying to arbitrate running time between different research units. I won't get in to that now, because it can be an exercise in enormous amounts of excrutiating pain, depending on what your requirements are. -- Gary Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: Can anyone recommend a good clustering software?
A quick search on http://www.google.com/ returned: http://www.sc.cs.tu-bs.de/pare/: "PaRe is an educational project at the Technical University Braunschweig to set up a Beowulf-class supercomputer built from commodity components. It starts from early hardware and design decisions and ends in building and profiling some small parallelized applications." When talking about "clustering", you should mention whether it's related to parallel computing or fail-over/high-availability. For more information on Beowulf-style clusters, take a look at: http://www.beowulf.org/ For a Beowulf-style cluster with a FreeBSD spin on it: http://acme.ecn.purdue.edu/ I've set up a PVM-based cluster on FreeBSD. It's pretty straight forward: Basically, it's just a FreeBSD base install and the PVM package (which is in the ports collection). A PVM enabled povray is also available in the ports collection, but I've not had a chance to play with it yet. PVM links: http://www.epm.ornl.gov/pvm/pvm_home.html http://www.netlib.org/pvm3/book/pvm-book.html -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 10:51:54AM -0400, Gary Jackson wrote: On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Frederik Meerwaldt wrote: as this is a low-level questions, I thought to post it to -hackers. If I'm wrong, tell me. Can anyone tell me a clustering software for FreeBSD? Such as PaRe, just for FBSD??? I don't know one. If possible it should have the following features: * Compatibility with other systems/platforms (NetBSD, Tru64 Unix,...) * Uhm ok. That's the only thing. But if you just tell me some names, that would be cool. What's PaRe? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: Can anyone recommend a good clustering software?
Hi! Anyway, "clustering software" is meaningless. What does "clustering software" do? Queue and run parallel jobs? Set up a communications medium? Do load balancing or high availability between a set of nodes? All those definitions are correct. That's right. I'm coming a little bit from the VMS-World. Easy-to-set-up clusters with lots of power, load balancing, shared drives However, I already have the answer. Thanks Matthew. Bye, Freddy To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
