Linux vs FreeBSD clusters (was: how are the Redhat product
changes affecting existing and future plans?)
Jan Schaumann
jschauma at netmeister.org
Thu Nov 6 20:20:58 PST 2003
Rayson Ho <raysonlogin at yahoo.com> wrote:
> A very good paper about building HPC clusters with FreeBSD:
>
> "Building a High-performance Computing Cluster Using FreeBSD"
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~brooks/papers/bsdcon2003/
>
> The author talked about hardware issues: KVM, BIOS redirection, CPU
> choices; and then talked about why he chose FreeBSD instead of Linux...
> he also did the port of GridEngine (SGE) to FreeBSD.
>
> Anyone tried to setup HPC clusters with *BSD??
I have a 30 node NetBSD/i386 cluster, and just recently created the
tech-cluster at netbsd.org mailing list. Some people are working on a port
of SGE to NetBSD, too. I hope to expand the awareness of NetBSD in
particular for cluster usage in the near future.
Some URLs of relevance:
http://guinness.cs.stevens-tech.edu/~jschauma/hpcf/
http://www.netbsd.org/MailingLists/#tech-cluster
http://www.netbsd.org/
http://eurobsdcon.org/papers/#souvatzis
http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/20/1523252&mode=thread&tid=122&tid=185&tid=190
http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/11/05/1536226.shtml?tid=122&tid=185&tid=190
-Jan
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