Clusters == Beowulf, generally. Earlier versions of SuSE had an "Extreme" set of packages that included all of the clustering stuff. Alan Crowe NT Systems Manager Shell Information Technology International Ltd. Seafield House, Hill of Rubislaw Aberdeen. AB15 6GZ. Tel.: +44 (0) 1224 81 8489 Fax: +44 (0) 1224 81 7516 Mobile: +44 (0) 780 240 6942 Email: Alan.X.Crowe@is.shell.com -----Original Message----- From: Roberto Dohnert [mailto:webwarrior@gnu-darwin.org] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 3:37 PM To: Derek Fountain; SuSE English Subject: Re: [SLE] Using SuSE on supercomputers It has a custom kernel. Thats the only way I could see they could handle the volume. On Wednesday 30 July 2003 10:10, Derek Fountain wrote:

I was just reading this article:

http://www.itworld.com/Comp/1437/030730ibmsupercomp/

which describes one hell of a cluster, which will be running SLES8.

I just wondered, how is SLES made to run on such a thing? Is SLES really designed for huge clusters as well as the single CPU boxes it normally runs on? Can you pop the CD in and expect it to recognise it has over 2000 processors to puzzle out? Doesn't sound too likely to me. :o)

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