[PLUG] Anyone running a linux cluster ?

[Pete Lancashire]

I'd like to try (learn) a few different things.

Oh..

- First a few filter of some sort, graphics, engineering,
  FEA, ray tracing etc. basically pthreads, PVM, MPI.
  This to learn the APIs etc.

- I will soon have two database products but that
  should be easy, Oracle 10g w/CRS (already done but
  removed to rebuild the PCs). And MySQL,
  especially now that 4.1.8+ is out. But to me that
  not the type of cluster I'm thinking off.

- Finally something where I know nothing about the
  math, the financial world.

- And what should be first, cluster management
  tools

-pete


On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 18:35, Russell Senior wrote:
> >>>>> "Pete" == Pete Lancashire <nix at petelancashire.com> writes:
> 
> Pete> I'm just about ready to set up a Linux cluster at home for m
> Pete> yown education. I did one about four years ago but things were
> Pete> pretty primitive then. I can't afford much but have two
> Pete> reasonably new servers (>2Ghz AMD Athlon/1GB RAM), and two older
> Pete> (<=1Ghz/<=256MB RAM) servers and maybe an old HP with 2x600 Mhz
> Pete> Pentium II/768MB, if I can find 3x18GB SCSI disks for it.
> 
> Pete> Just curious If anyone PLUG members have set one up before, and
> Pete> suggestions on what you think are the best ways to go.
> 
> What do you plan on running on it?