Re: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster

2008-10-21 Thread Bruce Cran
David Robillard wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Gerardo Paredes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From what i have read, Matt Olander and Brooks Davis are the foremost experts at cluster building on FreeBSD. However i believe a document needs to be written explaining in detailed steps how

Re: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster

2008-10-21 Thread David Robillard
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Gerardo Paredes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From what i have read, Matt Olander and Brooks Davis are the foremost experts > at cluster building on FreeBSD. However i believe a document needs to be > written explaining in detailed steps how to do it, so the common

Re: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster

2008-10-21 Thread Gerardo Paredes
--- On Tue, 10/21/08, David Robillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: David Robillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: "Maxim Khitrov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "FreeBSD Questions&qu

Re: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster

2008-10-21 Thread David Robillard
You might want to talk to the author of this: http://www.bsdcan.org/2007/schedule/events/6.en.html "Reflections on Building a High-performance Computing Cluster Using FreeBSD" by Brooks Davis. Regards, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified S

Re: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster

2008-10-20 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:17:11 -0400 Maxim Khitrov wrote: > I would be very interested in any documentation you can come up with > as you go forward with this project. I currently work in a > bioinformatics organization that uses external HPC clusters, and I'd > love to setup a small local cluster o

Re: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster

2008-10-20 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Gerardo Paredes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sean, the link you provided does a good job of helping someone understand the > process involved in setting up a cluster, even if it doesn't provide detailed > information in a "HOW-TO" like fashion. Then i guess is up

RE: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster

2008-10-20 Thread Gerardo Paredes
--- On Mon, 10/20/08, Sean Cavanaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Sean Cavanaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "FreeBSD Questions" > Date: Monday, October 20, 2008, 9:52 AM > &g

RE: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster

2008-10-20 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:19:28 -0700 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster > > Hello, i am interested in setting up a small cluster, of about 5 machines to > show how this can work on a univer

High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster

2008-10-20 Thread Gerardo Paredes
Hello, i am interested in setting up a small cluster, of about 5 machines to show how this can work on a university environment. Its kind of a pitch to university authorities to show them how this work so they can think on investing top dollars on it. We have a bunch of workstations running Fre