I have such a configuration and now I'm interested, where can I obtain
Beowulf & PVM, in "Operating systems. Internals and Design Principles. 4-th
why PVM? it's a fine system, but MPI has, practically speaking, obsoleted it.
Ed." by W.Stollings, said that i can obtain Beowulf from
www.beowulf.org.
beowulf is not really a singular thing, but a concept. there are many
instances which are downloadable and relatively turnkey if you're not
very picky. Oscar, Rocks, Perceus/Warewulf, etc.
But I cann't find the path to download. The same is with
PVM. By the way, what OS should i use: Fedora-based Yellow Dog Linux and
Fedora for Head; NetBSD everywhere or something else? I am new in Linux,
you should DEFINITELY use the same OS on all nodes. mixing OSs merely
adds support issues and complexity.
if you simply have a handful of machines, I think you should take
the lowest-tech approach: install a comfortable distro on all of
them, and you're done. distros like fedora already include working
versions of MPI (indeed sometimes even PVM). for a personal cluster,
you don't necessarily need anything else: schedulers, monitoring,
private networks, etc. it's not absolutely necessary, but the first
feature I'd add would be a shared filesystem (just an NFS export from
somewhere).
this cluster is intended for my scientific activity to make a work, that
would make possible to me to became Ph.D. in heat-transfer coupled with
hydrodynamics.
well, I think there's more to becoming a phd than running sims on a cluster ;)
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