Re: How to setup clusters

2003-08-14 Thread Randy Donohoe
Our IEEE chapter at school is going to setup a linux cluster. Does anyone have any experience/advice/interesting opinions about doing so? I am wondering if there is a good distro or any other wonderfulnes that will make the thing fun and last the semester. -- Alma Mandrake and Knoppix

Re: How to setup clusters

2003-08-14 Thread Net Llama!
On 08/09/03 14:10, Alma J Wetzker wrote: My personal interest is distributed applications, so a virtual machine running a database would be good. But we don't have the disk space to make it worthwhile. I hope to use more than one configuration before we are done. Well, there are alot of

How to setup clusters

2003-08-14 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Our IEEE chapter at school is going to setup a linux cluster. Does anyone have any experience/advice/interesting opinions about doing so? I am wondering if there is a good distro or any other wonderfulnes that will make the thing fun and last the semester. -- Alma

Re: How to setup clusters

2003-08-14 Thread Net Llama!
On 08/08/03 15:04, Alma J Wetzker wrote: Our IEEE chapter at school is going to setup a linux cluster. Does anyone have any experience/advice/interesting opinions about doing so? I am wondering if there is a good distro or any other wonderfulnes that will make the thing fun and last the

Re: How to setup clusters

2003-08-14 Thread Aaron Grewell
On Sat, 09 Aug 2003 19:54:44 -0500 Ben Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] emitted these signals: I set up a Mosix one about 2 years ago for a trade show. Not a problem and I really liked it. Another vote for Mosix. My office workstation is currently a Mosix cluster. I got tired of my compiles

Re: How to setup clusters

2003-08-14 Thread burns
On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 00:25, Matthew Carpenter wrote: SNIP SuSE 8.2 pro comes with all types of clustering software. I believe there is even a scientific cluster software included, although it is not Beowolf. Also: http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/as/cluster/ Oracle offers a high-end

Re: How to setup clusters

2003-08-14 Thread Alma J Wetzker
set one up. We plan on using it to learn how to setup clusters. Let me rephrase. You're asking 'how do i setup a cluster'. I stated that there is no such thing as one type of cluster. Its as if you asked 'how do i create software?'. There's not a single type of software, or even a single

Re: How to setup clusters

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew Carpenter
if there is a good distro or any other wonderfulnes that will make the thing fun and last the semester. What do you plan to use it for? 'clusters' have *ALOT* of different meanings and uses, and that is heavily dependent on how you set one up. We plan on using it to learn how to setup

Re: How to setup clusters

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Hipp
Alma J Wetzker wrote: Aaron Grewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 11 Aug 2003 21:31:26 -0700 On Sat, 09 Aug 2003 19:54:44 -0500 Ben Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] emitted these signals: I set up a Mosix one about 2 years ago for a trade show. Not a problem and I really liked it. Another vote for Mosix. My

Re: How to setup clusters

2003-08-14 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Aaron Grewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 11 Aug 2003 21:31:26 -0700 On Sat, 09 Aug 2003 19:54:44 -0500 Ben Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] emitted these signals: I set up a Mosix one about 2 years ago for a trade show. Not a problem and I really liked it. Another vote for Mosix. My office workstation is

Re: How to setup clusters

2003-08-14 Thread Aaron Grewell
Dumb question here ... Are you guys talking about Mosix http://www.mosix.org/ or openMosix http://openmosix.sourceforge.net/ ? Michael OpenMosix. Mosix switched to a non-OSS license some time ago, so OpenMosix was developed using the last free version.

Re: How to setup clusters

2003-08-10 Thread Alma J Wetzker
wonderfulnes that will make the thing fun and last the semester. What do you plan to use it for? 'clusters' have *ALOT* of different meanings and uses, and that is heavily dependent on how you set one up. We plan on using it to learn how to setup clusters. My personal interest is distributed

Re: How to setup clusters

2003-08-08 Thread Net Llama!
wondering if there is a good distro or any other wonderfulnes that will make the thing fun and last the semester. What do you plan to use it for? 'clusters' have *ALOT* of different meanings and uses, and that is heavily dependent on how you set one up. We plan on using it to learn how to setup