begin Eric Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 03:08:25PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > begin Ryan Detert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > 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 wow, that's amazing!
fyi, the book in the lugod library is MIT press, not ORA. :) and i found it to be quite good if you want to learn the basics about parallel processing (but useless beyond the basics). pete -- First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Gandhi, being prophetic about Linux. Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech