Hi, I have a question about organising Debian Linux cluster for small physics experiment. Half a year ago we bought a PC and I am running Debian 2.0 on it. My colleagues who usually work on X-terminals noticed certain advantages of PC compared to X-terminal and basically the idea is instead of buying extra 5 X-terminals to buy 5 PC. I think I understand how to maintain single-computer system, but I have very little experience with clusters.
So far they want PC just to be an X-terminal, but I beleive they will be interested in it's computing power very soon. Questions: 1. What is better: one powerfull central computer surrounded by many little ones? OR democratic society of equal computers? 2. Is it easy to "clone" debian systems? How should one maintain it? 3. What are the recommendations about hardware specific to clusters would you make? 4. Any useful resources on this matter? (Basically how to approach the problem). Thanks you, Sasha. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]