[57North] Cluster

[Tom Jones]

On Friday we acquired a load of old machines from Tony Travis.

Since then we have gone through the pile of machines, sorted the bad from
the good, racked and gave hard drives to the good machines.

All else being equal we are ready to build our first cluster!

The problem is I have no idea how to go about doing this. I spent the
morning reading about different clustering tools with Beowulf in
particular. After all this there I am no further forward, I guess a couple
of questions come to mind.

1. What will we use the cluster for?
            - If we have a particular tool in mind, it might mean that we
have to build the cluster in
              a certain way.
2. What OS should we use?
            - I would like to use a BSD, I don't know  enough to
demonstrate insanity on that
              path.
3. What task distribution libs/programming tools do we need.

If we can answer these I think we will be in a good place to start.

Help?!@?!?

Tom
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