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Re: what's the status of Beowulf under Debian?



Greetings!  

Rafael Caetano dos Santos <rcaetano@linux.ime.usp.br> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I've read a few docs about how set up a Beowulf and, surprisingly,
> Red Hat seems to be the favorite dist in this aspect.  
> 
> Is there a document explaining how to set up a simple Beowulf using
> Debian?
> 

Not that I know of, but this would be a good idea.  Any takers?

> What non-standard Debian packages are necessary/useful, apart from MPI and
> PVM?
> 

I'm most interested in scalapack and mosix(in the works, waiting for
code to be released as a patch to standard kernel.  Is this required,
BTW?), though there are quite a few others.  What are other people
running? 

> Where can I find info about existing Debian-based Beowulf systems?
> 

We have a web page in the works under "ports".  If I can find a free
moment, I'd love to submit some dosumentation on the 'wulf we're
running at our financial investment research company.

> bye 
>     Rafael Caetano <rcaetano@linux.ime.usp.br>
> 
> 
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Take care,


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