I'm looking into the software to build a compute cluster. I found ClusterKnoppix, which looks really cool, except it hasn't been touched in over 2 years. Searching around has led me to OpenMOSIX, ParallelKnoppix, and all sorts of other items.
I'd like to find something like ClusterKnoppix, except that's currently supported, and that runs under Red Hat or CentOS 9which would be preferable from a cost standpoint, even through Red Hat licensing for HPC really isn't that bad... $79 per node IIRC) I'd like something that already has all of the management and monitoring ready to go... master node boots up, and then compute nodes PXE boot from it. Master node sees all compute nodes, and already "knows" how to spread the work around. The applications we want to run are not cluster-aware, and we have no idea how long it would take for the developers to rewrite them, and then go through with debugging them... I'm hoping to find something that basically presents one machine with a lot of CPUs to the application, and that handles the workload itself. Commercial stuff is fine. I already talked to Red Hat, and after a lot of dancing around, they admitted that they basically sell Red Hat licenses, and not anything that actually does any kind of HPC. They suggested that Platform Computing might be a solution... but it turns out that they write and sell libraries, which you then need to write software around. We talked to Penguin at some point, too. They sell a whole package... hardware and everything. And it ain't cheap :-) We can get hardware for significantly less from our regular vendor, so an out-of-the-box complete solution is an option if we can't find software, free or commercial, that does what we want. -- *********************************************************************** * John Oliver http://www.john-oliver.net/ * * * *********************************************************************** -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
