Micha Feigin wrote: > On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:56:18 -0600 > Geoff Jacobs <gdjac...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Nifty Tom Mitchell wrote: >>> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 05:06:17PM +0530, Indrajit Deb wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> I want to setup beowulf for my eight node cpu to run simulation. Debian >>>> 4.0 is installed in each cpu. I am not familiar with beowulf. If any >>>> one help me to setup beowulf for the begining to the end i will be >>>> grateful. >>>> Thanks. >>>> Indrajit Deb >>>> Research Scholar. >>>> Dept. of Biophysics, Molecular Biology & Bioinformatics >>>> Calcutta University >>>> Kolkata >>>> India >>>> Ph. +919239202278 >>> Hmm Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics.... >>> Which Molucular modeling code do you plan to run. >>> Most but not all are built on MPI libraries does >>> Debian have a pre-packaged MPI development and >>> run time environment. Look for things like Open MPI... >> Yes, it does. OpenMPI, LAM, MPICH (but only version 1.2.x). >> >>> The simulation codes you plan to run will decide >>> a lot of things. For example it may cause you to move from >>> Debian to ROCKS/Centos or something else. Based >>> on your question you are a Bio guy more than >>> a computer guy. If so let your application codes drive >>> the cluster decisions. >> Why do you say this? Debian (5.0, what I checked just now) includes all >> the basic Beowulf elements and even tosses in GROMACS pre-compiled for >> OpenMPI. If it's what his people are used to there's no reason to switch. >> >> I would recommend using Debian 5.0 though, just so the latest GNU >> compilers are available. >> > > Debian has most of the programs needed to run a cluster except as far as I can > tell a queue system. I had to install torcs/maui from source and recompile > openmpi to support them (regrettably the latest version of debian's openmpi > source package doesn't compile properly with torcs support so I had to go one > back. It doesn't link with the torcs library for some reason).
Slurm and SGE. Alas no Torque or PBS. -- Geoffrey D. Jacobs _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
