30 Jul
2003
30 Jul
'03
19:13
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Crowe, Alan X SITI-ITDLE314 wrote:
Clusters == Beowulf, generally. Earlier versions of SuSE had an "Extreme" set of packages that included all of the clustering stuff.
:-( just ran pin beowulf on 8.2 Pro and was surprised not to find all that stuff that used to be in the distro. Of course Beowulf is not really a multiprocessor computer but a cluster of servers. They are probably diskless servers that *each* boot from a shared NFS bootp server that serves up (customized) SLES8 to each of them. More interesting is that these are 64-bit processors - there is a SLES8 box for AMD64 (Opteron) - but the article also mentions IA64 (Itanium 2 Madison) which has no Suse box product yet (at least at suse.com)