Looking to build an HPC cluster.
Hey Everyone, I have recently become increasingly interested in building a cluster at home(for the knowledge) so that I may be able to incorporprate one at work. I have 4 identical machines (i know this isn't required, but it will make things easier on my part). They are just Gateway desktops - 933mhz 128MB RAM 20GB HDD. One of them has 256MB RAM and an additional 60GB HDD that I was planning to use a an NFS export for /home. I have been looking for documentation/books for FreeBSD clustering, but there doesn't seem to be a lot on the subject. I have seen the Fellowship and read through that. If anyone can point me to any books, or documentation online, that would be great. I am looking at using Open-MPI for the clustering. I hope that's a good choice? Another question I had is: In the techTV show from...a while back... with Brooks and and Matt Olander doing the FreeBSD cluster, Matt had mentioned that 'The Matrix' was rednered on a FreeBSD cluster. In regards to that, can a FreeBSD cluster provide processing power to Windows-based applications, or were they using some kind of unix-based graphics rendering tool? To get a little more in depth: Our enterprise software at work is 'H.M.S. for Windows' from HAB, Inc. It is for public housing operations management. The thing is, this software is all done with Gupta SQLbase and Centura... Our current server is a dual-xeon with 3 GB of RAM, serving about 100 clients. Most of the time, it is sufficient. Sometimes, during the early afternoon it can become rather sluggish, and I was just curious if there would possibly be any way to push some of the processing poer for generating reports and whatnot to a small cluster running FreeBSD. I have feeling this ins't possible... but I know nothing about clustering, so hopefully someone can tell me that I have a good idea, or that I'm barking up the wrong tree entirely. Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
New 5.4 installation locks up at 'uhcio0'
I just installed FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE on a Compaq Proliant 1600 Server at work. This model is dual-Pentium III 500MHz, 1 GB RAM, 3x9.1 GB Ultra2 SCSI in RAID 5 array. It is to be used for our new intranet server and perhaps also some Proxy functions. When booting the installation CD, it locked up at: uhci0: Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller at device 20.2 on pci0 So I rebooted and choose Safe Mode installation. That worked without a hitch. Finished, rebooted, and it locked up at the same point again. I can boot using Safe Mode, but obviously that isn't a solution. Please help, this is my companies first move away from Microsoft systems and I'd like this to go as smoothly as possible. Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
5.3 and 5.4RC1 both fail with CD upon installation(5.1 did not)
Here is the error I get when booting with(any) of the 5.3/5.4 discs: acd0: CDRW QSI CD-RW/DVD-ROM SBW-241/VX08 at ata1-master UDMA33 acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x00 ascq=0x00 error=0 acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x00 ascq=0x00 error=0 acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x00 ascq=0x00 error=0 acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x00 ascq=0x00 error=0 acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x00 ascq=0x00 error=0 acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x00 ascq=0x00 error=0 acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x00 ascq=0x00 error=0 acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x00 ascq=0x00 error=0 acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x00 ascq=0x00 error=0 then it starts sysinstall except when I try to start the installation it fails at mounting the CD-ROM. I can install in safe mode.. but then any time there is a cd in the drive upon boot-up.. i get errors again. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
