Re: suggestions for setting up a cluster in Fedora/CentOS

2015-01-03 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Yes, of course! Sorry about that. On Sat, 3 Jan 2015 11:48:49 -0500 bruce wrote: > what do you want to the cluster to do? MPI (Message Passing Interface) using OpenMPI perhaps and also the ability to run jobs from the headnode in a queue. > how much management do you want to do? Some, I gues

Re: suggestions for setting up a cluster in Fedora/CentOS

2015-01-03 Thread bruce
what do you want to the cluster to do? how much management do you want to do? do you want to slap VM/virtual machines on each box? more data from you might get more useful comments! thanks On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hello, > > I have my hands on five slightly older

suggestions for setting up a cluster in Fedora/CentOS

2015-01-03 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hello, I have my hands on five slightly older (circa 2009-top-of-the-line) dual quad-cores, one of them has 16GB memory, the others have 8GB. All of them are otherwise identical. I want to try my hand at making a cluster out of them using Fedora 21 or CentOS 7. Are there any comprehensive docum