On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 05:00:07PM +0000, Alan Jones wrote: > Hi All, > > I'll start by introducing myself being my first post on the list. As the > header suggests my name is Alan - I'm head of R&D at a production (visual > effects) house in London. > > I'm currently looking into developing a cluster to perform fluid simulation > and google, while providing plenty of information, hasn't shown what I'm > after. > > The first part I'm looking for is how I'd go about using gentoo as my base > platform for putting together a cluster. > In exactly the same way as you'd use any other distribution. Minimal OS for each node except possibly for the head node(s). Can I suggest Debian as being potentially quicker/easier to install than Gentoo for large numbers of nodes?
> The other question is whether there's any existing open source projects for > navier stokes on beowulf out there as I'd rather spend my development > efforts contributing to an existing project. > > Cheers, > > Alan. > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
