> > Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2020 18:09:36 -0500 > From: Gerald Henriksen <ghenr...@gmail.com> > To: beowulf@beowulf.org > Subject: Re: [Beowulf] First cluster in 20 years - questions about > today > Message-ID: <qble3fpv71c6eblpcqvnp5kpdh1lmp4...@4ax.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Sat, 1 Feb 2020 22:21:09 -0500, you wrote: > > >Should I consider Solaris or illumos? I do plan on using ZFS, especially > >for the data node, but I want as much redundancy as I can get, since I'm > >going to be using used hardware. Will the fancy Solaris cluster tools be > >useful? > > Unless you are absolutely sure the software you want to run works on > Solaris, using Solaris/Illumos is likely asking for trouble. > > You can get ZFS on FreeBSD, or if you are willing to overlook the > license issues my understanding Ubuntu works quite well with ZFS. > > As for hardware, what do you mean by "used"? > > Thanks to AMD the performance of newer hardware is signficantly better > than something 5+ years old, and relatively speaking not necessarily > that expensive, with added benefits of less power required than > anything 10+ years old. >
I'm testing FreeBSD right now and will test *SunOS before commiting a full deployment. My initial 3 nodes are socket 940 Opteron based. I'm planning to acquire two nodes of dual cpu hexacore Xeons for the cost of a small road trip next weekend (otherwise free). The more I think about it, maybe I'll have two clusters, one for Opterons and one for Xeons. I'm currently out of work on medical leave and don't have a lot of free capital. >
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