On 24-06-2018, at 21h 17'25", Hans wrote about "Beowulf gone?" > Hi folks, > > I am interested in clustering a server for educacation purposes, Asd far as > I > remembewr, there had bbeen some debian packages called "beowulf" or so, > > However, I may be wrong and saw them in SuSE-linux not in debian. > > Today I found no beowqulf packages any more. Question: If Í want to create a > cluster, are the "mpich"-packes today the correct choice? (Is mpich the > successor to beowulf?) > > Please apologize, I still did not read much of the beowulf documentations, my > question is more aimed, if mpich is the preferred thing to take a look at or > not. > > Thanks for any hints. > > Best > > Hans >
Hans, mpich is an implementation of MPI (message passing interface), that is a way of parallelization of a code to run on more than one core, either on the same host or over few hosts. beowulf is a way to configure and maintain a PC-cluster. I hope it is clear now. Kind regards, Ionel
