On 3 Mar, joe lerch wrote:
My son and three of his classmates got the assignment to put together a Beowolf cluster as a class project in the next two weeks. He said they are leaning towards using SuSE. We had hoped our SuSE 6.0 subscription would have arrived by now, but so far we are out of luck.
Is it better to try to postpone the assignment until we get SuSE 6.0 or better to just use 5.3? A deeper question : is SuSE better than RedHat for Beowolf?
How about this question: Providing they get it set up and running, what software is available to show it working?
thanks in advance.
joe
PS: At least one professor is looking forward to seeing it work and said that if it works OK they will keep it and use it as an addition trainig aid. Naturally, this will be good for SuSE.
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Dear Joe, please have a look at: <A HREF="http://florida.linuxusers.org/beowulf.html"><A HREF="http://florida.linuxusers.org/beowulf.html</A">http://florida.linuxusers.org/beowulf.html</A</A>> The info on that web page is a bit outdated because we have since made a bit of progress by putting together a couple of pentiums and the cluster is up and running. It runs under RedHat 5.1 mainly because that was the distribution the people who set it up had experience with. I am quite confident that you could do the same with SuSE 5.3 or 6.0. Best regards, Alex. -- Dr. Alexander Angerhofer Associate Professor of Chemistry Department of Chemistry The University of Florida Box 117200 Gainesville, FL 32611-7200 USA Tel.: (+1) 352 846 3281 alt.: (+1) 352 392 9489 lab : (+1) 352 846 3283 FAX : (+1) 352 392 0872 - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>