Speaking from recent experience, it won't really matter what distro you
use if this is your first cluster. There's a lot of stuff to do just to
get it up and running and solving basic problems. There's clusters based
on pretty much every distro. If you really want to go hardcore, try the
Scyld Beowulf distribution. That's built for clustering. www.scyld.com.
Also check out www.beowulf.org .
Damien
> hi,
>
> before I start my clustering project, I would like to
> know what distro should I use for my cluster.
>
> rite now, I 'm using RedHAT 9.0 cause thats widely
> supported.
>
> My cluster setup (planning to)would be:
>
> MASTER:
> RED HAT 9.0 will "Everything" Installation
>
> Slaves:
> REDHAT 9.0 stripped down with the bare
> necessities.(about 500 MB).
>
> Is it possible to strip it further down?
>
> Anyway, I just wanted to know if this setup is good or
> are there any better ones.
>
> A month back I used SuSe7.3(old!) and was amazed at
> the number of "out of the box" clustering solutions
> that came packed with it.
>
> I would be getting SuSe9.0 within a week. Should I
> change?
>
> or.... Should I move to Debian. I hear many good
> reviews about Debian, but the problem is I never have
> had experience with deb.
>
> or...should I continue with the existing setup?
>
> Comments welcome.
>
> Toufeeq
>
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