On 10/4/2010 11:05 PM, John Hearns wrote:
The 8 motherboard system will help you learn about cluster install techniques - how to install the smae image on many systems, or how to run systems with no disks, and also will teach a lot about networking - as you fundamentally have to have a network to get it running, and will have to o network troubleshooting.
For people who want to learn about cluster install techniques and other non-production cluster-related issues, you might want to look at the Rocks cluster email list. I posted a description of how to create a whole Rocks cluster on one physical machine using VirtualBox. I call this Rocks-in-the-Box. You'd never want to use this method for production work but doing things this way makes it very easy to create test clusters. You could also use these test clusters to dabble in parallel programming. Cordially, -- Jon Forrest Research Computing Support College of Chemistry 173 Tan Hall University of California Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1460 510-643-1032 jlforr...@berkeley.edu _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
