From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 20 15:46:09 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 830A71065672 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:46:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerardon_paredes@yahoo.com) Received: from web65612.mail.ac4.yahoo.com (web65612.mail.ac4.yahoo.com [76.13.9.80]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 14EA28FC0A for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:46:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerardon_paredes@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 17658 invoked by uid 60001); 20 Oct 2008 15:19:28 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=3NbyatJScVdU83PtWYrxSe1a/DECwJlncqwgeoZj32U8LNIEVsgVwTtqQvTB5sSoaggDtgdkJLFW3LBqdIJrNtHAlZi7Q0jsYjlMHZN2ptr0YnQBxNEh5l/p0qvhqF6ZOpWLuFZCP0p0bLGHy8LJ0dL7HAKpR8asCRWPd3/QgqQ=; X-YMail-OSG: jdy3BEIVM1klb7WY4zYaAhgkD7FfpDRkyFR7x3hidKowPyy2CJDIikgwMjYSEQBevHb1Cp6FK.iryr5pF1ezVqz54rCr7ivTrR6cVrC8U4fDcQMO2uBTwDjtB.0_N3xHGiY2yNr2ed7B402a9l8AzlZ.kXKyUWSOMhy4gihrPYo2AQgI.UGHoubk1hY4 Received: from [63.245.17.123] by web65612.mail.ac4.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:19:28 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.218.2 Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:19:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Gerardo Paredes To: FreeBSD Questions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <669452.4810.qm@web65612.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:20:54 +0000 Subject: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: gerardon_paredes@yahoo.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:46:09 -0000 Hello, i am interested in setting up a small cluster, of about 5 machines to show how this can work on a university environment. Its kind of a pitch to university authorities to show them how this work so they can think on investing top dollars on it. We have a bunch of workstations running FreeBSD, However as i been reading through the documentation, the canonical situacion would be a environment where the machines netboot over the server, get most of their partitions over NFS and have NIS installed so users can authenticate at the server and share resources available at the cluster. My question is, it is possible to just install SGE, grid Mathematica (or maybe MPI, open-MPI, a custom application), share the home directory over NFS, copy some ssh keys to the other nodes and run them like a cluster?. Please someone with more experience on this kind of install help me with a series of steps designed on how to get this running. Regards Gerardo Paredes __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com