Dear friends, I have been using and playing with SuSE 5.3 (off of the ftp server) for the past half year or so and am planning to get an official 6.0 package soon (as soon as the SuSE-USA folks can get me an e-mail quote for the purchasing department of my university, but that's a different story ...). What prompts my post to the list right now is the following message which was forwarded from a friend here at UF: --- SuSE will introduce a line of Linux cluster systems at CeBIT Feb 4th, 04:08:28 An Alpha Linux distribution will also be released soon. by Dwight Johnson According to the German news service, Heise.de, SuSE is expanding its products with a line of Linux cluster computer systems named SALT (SuSE Advanced Linux Technology) which will be introduced at CeBIT in Hannover March 18-24. Products of the SALT line will be custom built as complete solutions to serve the requirements of higher education institutions and industrial research and development divisions. According to Richard Jelinek of SuSE, the software cluster technology is open-sourced and based on the same techniques and tools as Beowulf but adapted to the SuSE distribution node management and extended with some more applications. Jelinek went on to tell Linux Today that SuSE's Linux distribution for Alpha (the AXP-distribution) will also be introduced at CeBIT. This will be a product of its own. When this distribution is stable, AXP-Clusters will be added to SuSE's product line. SuSE Linux for the Alpha processor will be released soon after CeBIT. --- This news is quite interesting to me since together with a couple of friends we are trying to set up a Beowulf cluster here at UF, that will eventually consist of a cluster of about 16 486's (see http://florida.linuxusers.org/beowulf.html). We would like to seriously look at the SuSE cluster software package for our application, particularly if it turns out to be more advanced and/or more adaptable than the RedHat packages. I guess, my questions to the list and the friendly SuSE-folks who are listening are the following: 1. What are the experiences with the existing SuSE Beowulf packages that come with SuSE 5.3 and 6.0? In particular has anybody tried to parallelize a couple of 486's using them? 2. Where can we get more info on the software that will run on the SALT line of servers? In which respects does it differ from the already available Beowulf packages? 3. Is there any information yet about the cost of the software/support package? Best regards, Alex Angerhofer. - To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the archiv at http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html
