Re: [CentOS] Cluster server options?

2009-11-09 Thread John Doe
From: Scott Ehrlich srehrl...@gmail.com I have a 10 blade cluster of just hardware - I can install what I want, how I want. What options are there if I wanted to build the 10 blades as one large beast, but _NOT_ necessarily for someone doing grid-type work?Some users don't now how to

Re: [CentOS] Cluster server options?

2009-11-08 Thread Bent Terp
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Scott Ehrlich srehrl...@gmail.com wrote:  Some code is designed for a single, powerful workstation.  I'd like this cluster to act as one powerful workstation. I was going to suggest OpenMOSIX but that turned out to be quite dead :-( 2 minutes of frantic googling

Re: [CentOS] Cluster server options?

2009-11-08 Thread Bent Terp
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Bent Terp b...@nagstrup.dk wrote: On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Scott Ehrlich srehrl...@gmail.com wrote:  Some code is designed for a single, powerful workstation.  I'd like this cluster to act as one powerful workstation. I was going to suggest OpenMOSIX but

Re: [CentOS] Cluster server options?

2009-11-08 Thread John R Pierce
Scott Ehrlich wrote: I have a 10 blade cluster of just hardware - I can install what I want, how I want. What options are there if I wanted to build the 10 blades as one large beast, but _NOT_ necessarily for someone doing grid-type work?Some users don't now how to program that way, but

Re: [CentOS] Cluster server options?

2009-11-08 Thread John R Pierce
Bent Terp wrote: 2 minutes of frantic googling led to this project: http://www.kerrighed.org which at least seems to be alive, but I haven't tried it myself. You might also want to look at this one: http://www.xtreemos.org/ those are both grid solutions. as any high performance

Re: [CentOS] Cluster server options?

2009-11-08 Thread John R Pierce
nate wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/04/scalemp_vsmp_smb_cloud/ Is the only product I've heard of that claims to do what your aiming for. um, that just does away with the expensive infiniband switch in favor of an infiniband 'loop' architecture (eg, each host still uses an

[CentOS] Cluster server options?

2009-11-07 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I have a 10 blade cluster of just hardware - I can install what I want, how I want.   What options are there if I wanted to build the 10 blades as one large beast, but _NOT_ necessarily for someone doing grid-type work?    Some users don't now how to program that way, but they'd like to have their

Re: [CentOS] Cluster server options?

2009-11-07 Thread nate
Scott Ehrlich wrote:  Some code is designed for a single, powerful workstation.  I'd like this cluster to act as one powerful workstation. Good luck with that.. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/04/scalemp_vsmp_smb_cloud/ Is the only product I've heard of that claims to do what your

Re: [CentOS] Cluster server options?

2009-11-07 Thread Neil Aggarwal
Scott:  Some code is designed for a single, powerful workstation.  I'd like this cluster to act as one powerful workstation. I think your application has to be designed to run in a cluster environment. Splitting up a job into multiple streams of execution requires some the application to

Re: [CentOS] Cluster server options?

2009-11-07 Thread James A. Peltier
On Sat, 7 Nov 2009, Scott Ehrlich wrote: I have a 10 blade cluster of just hardware - I can install what I want, how I want.   What options are there if I wanted to build the 10 blades as one large beast, but _NOT_ necessarily for someone doing grid-type work?    Some users don't now how to