I agree with Jacob. You're asking a very broad question and you need to narrow it down by determining your requirements. What distributions have your worked with already?
I've had experience with several solutions but I got down with FAI and Debian. BTW it's good to see another fellow countryman here! On 10/8/07, Jakob Oestergaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 05:21:08PM +0430, Seyed Abouzar Najafi Shoshtari > wrote: > > Dear beowulf experts, > > > > we are planning to build a beowulf cluster > > with 8 nodes (8xCPUs, Intel 6600 Quadcore 8MB, 8GB RAM )and > > a Dell-Server as the master node (2xCPU Xeon Quad Core 1.6GHz, 4TB Hard, > 18GB > > RAM). > > > > Which linux distribution would be ideal for our case? > > Which is best - a cup of tea or a fighter jet? > > I guess it depends on what you need most. > > All reasonably modern distributions will support the hardware just fine. > > What you need to find out, is; > 1) What software will you run, and which distributions support the > software (or, > which distributions are supported by the software) > 2) How can you get support - various vendors or non-vedors give you > different > options depending on your needs > 3) How do you get security updates in a timely fashion? Is this an issue > at all? > 4) What about non-security upgrades? Do you need a very stable platform, > or would > you prefer something that upgrades libraries and tools more frequently? > > In other words; find out what you need - then pick what you need. > > -- > > / jakob > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >
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