Re: cluster of PW433au's
Hi,
If you are looking for a clustering application on alpha and at the same
time to contribute, take a look at www.openssi.org. And great thing
would be to help in converting the the load balancing algorithm ( which
is nothing by MOSIX (/usr/src/linux/cluster/ssi/mosixll/balance.c ) ) to
NOT use floating point arithmetic
-aneesh
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 20:22, terry.bowling@verizon.com wrote:
> With all of our layoffs, be have an abundance of spare Digital PW433au's.
> I have convinced my boss to loan a pair to the local university, Indiana
> Institute of Technology (IIT) where I teach. It will be a student led
> project to get a single Master & Slave cluster going. If they can do this,
> they get more. Probably a maximum of 10 nodes with primary and secondary
> masters.
>
> Unfortunatley, I am extremely interested in this but have not had time to
> participate or help with research. They basically need 2 things.
> Suggestions/advice on configuration and management tools, and
> suggestions/advice on what to do with it when it's finished. Right now,
> they're thinking of letting it be used by SETI.
>
> The other issue - which distro. I gave them copies of RH7.2 when I gave
> them the hardware. But the student who is leading it wants to use Debian.
> Does anyone have experience to say which would be better interms of the
> clustering software available? I've read great things about Scyld's
> cluster software, but it looks like it's only x86 and I couldn't find the
> source to download. Right now I'm reading the references on www.lcic.org.
>
> Thanks in advance.
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> Verizon NOTD Systems Support
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