[vox-tech] beowulf cluster

[Eric Engelhard]

On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 02:48:38PM -0800, Ryan Detert wrote:
> 
> I am looking for a good howto or a really clear book on setting up a 
> beowulf cluster. I have 3 computers and I am wondering first off if it 
> would be easier to use NFS or having each node have a completely 
> functional OS.

You do not need to worry about most infrastructure issues with only three
boxes. I like ROCKS (http://www.rocksclusters.org/rocks-documentation/2.3/),
which admittedly, is overkill for my little cluster running embarrassingly
parallel instances of NCI BLAST and megaBLAST.

Eric
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