[vox-tech] beowulf cluster

Eric Engelhard vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Mon, 6 Jan 2003 15:34:44 +0000


On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 03:08:25PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> begin Ryan Detert <rcdetert@ucdavis.edu> 
> > 
> > I am looking for a good howto or a really clear book on setting up a 
> > beowulf cluster.
> 
> there's a beowulf howto, but it looks abandoned.  the copy i have was
> last updated in 1998.   there's a book on beowulf clusters in the lugod
> library, and it was good at the basics, but not very detailed when it
> comes to actually setting one up.

Please avoid the software that came with the O'Reilly Beowulf book. Heck,
avoid the whole book. Even they want to distance themselves from it:

http://www.oreillynet.com/search/?sp-q=cluster&sp-k=books&search=search

Eric
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