Hi, I have been asked to recommend a small compute cluster for a small software firm (they support the R statistics language) and am hoping that some of the experts on these lists can help me with ideas and let me know of pitfalls to avoid. The basic requirements are:
1. 5 nodes. Would like to be have option to expand number of nodes if not too costly 2. each node needs 500GB local disk space, 4 cores, 2.5GHz or better, 8GB ram. 3. need to have cluster be dual boot between windows HPC and linux RHEL5. 4. a controlling node that can be switched between linux and windows to control the cluster. Perhaps run a hypervisor on this and have both controllers running at the same time? 5. Possibly some shared space. They do not know yet if shared space is useful for a compute cluster. 6. A switch to hook it all together. I appreciate your ideas on what to get, where to get it, what pitfalls I need to look out for. cheers, ski -- "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it connected to the entire universe" John Muir Chris "Ski" Kacoroski, [email protected], 206-501-9803 or ski98033 on most IM services _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
