From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 20 18:09:56 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 445C2106569C for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:09:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerardon_paredes@yahoo.com) Received: from web65611.mail.ac4.yahoo.com (web65611.mail.ac4.yahoo.com [76.13.9.79]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E81138FC1F for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:09:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerardon_paredes@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 93769 invoked by uid 60001); 20 Oct 2008 18:09:55 -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:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=XmHAEBQQvscEaHUsSWlbFk1kMSxtkJVwkCK1g6ckzoI9riP9VT2S/X0MGqcx3wxjxxeFLajT3LPHkDYw1//b7tbzijS93b8k1L4Au7/bwRmT4FTYjDSf5Pm1NZkRTrYUz1G3BBEcWsCgyQUqxE6CaOj+O3UOBRsdf2b+9PAAJeM=; X-YMail-OSG: vOcawocVM1l.V0wSLd2_s8_vGe52tSgRdAOsxvOs36txJ7UQazmmNElT1PYMxaHIe8DrM43pFu8TKth1ydiqxiCUnNNK.El21.By7MQnJGaXrhTWktV8.JZJ_x5wbDCk_XvLCYCa6d87GC51LBQScVg_Y9o6AbkBEXMh6rp2wsztF.g9G.4K269h3j0q Received: from [63.245.17.123] by web65611.mail.ac4.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:09:54 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.218.2 Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:09:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Gerardo Paredes To: FreeBSD Questions In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <955145.83577.qm@web65611.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:32:34 +0000 Subject: RE: 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 18:09:56 -0000 --- On Mon, 10/20/08, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: > From: Sean Cavanaugh > Subject: RE: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster > To: gerardon_paredes@yahoo.com, "FreeBSD Questions" > Date: Monday, October 20, 2008, 9:52 AM > > Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:19:28 -0700 > > From: gerardon_paredes@yahoo.com > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster > > > > 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. > > > > > not an answer to your question, but you might be interested > by this http://mini-itx.com/projects/cluster/ > might give you some insight into what you are looking for > > -Sean Sean, the link you provided does a good job of helping someone understand the process involved in setting up a cluster, even if it doesn't provide detailed information in a "HOW-TO" like fashion. Then i guess is up to me to get going and ask questions where i get stuck. Maybe do the How-to documentation of my own in the process. Gerardo Paredes __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com