Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:09:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Gerardo Paredes <gerardon_paredes@yahoo.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster Message-ID: <955145.83577.qm@web65611.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <BAY126-W18491BEA8F24BCC560983DCA2F0@phx.gbl>
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--- On Mon, 10/20/08, Sean Cavanaugh <millenia2000@hotmail.com> wrote: > From: Sean Cavanaugh <millenia2000@hotmail.com> > Subject: RE: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster > To: gerardon_paredes@yahoo.com, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > 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
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