On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:47:54AM -0700, damien_at_[hidden] wrote:
> 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 .
I second this. My advice is to run what you know. You will want
something you understand, especialy when the time comes to automate
tasks (and you really want to do that if you have more then 2-3 nodes.)
When automating, all those little quirks of every OS come back to bite
you if you don't know about them. Most of the basic software, especialy
communication toolkits like MPI and PVM run on just about anything
vaguly POSIX-like. This is why I run FreeBSD on my clusters.
If there isn't a particular distro you're really familiar with, you
might try one of the cluster kits like Rocks
(http://www.rocksclusters.org/).
-- Brooks
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