Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 19:20:50 +0000 From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> To: Nick I <clusterbuilder@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best cluster OS Message-ID: <20051120192050.GA19437@uk.tiscali.com> In-Reply-To: <e073f9120511181018jb29237cgf3b5bce17c49143a@mail.gmail.com> References: <e073f9120511181018jb29237cgf3b5bce17c49143a@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 11:18:34AM -0700, Nick I wrote: > Here is the question: > > "I'm bulding a project for a cluster that consists on 64 machines running > each 2x Dual Core AMD Opteron with 2GB of memory per core (8GB per machine). > We already have everything else accounted for except for the software. We > have serious doubts on what would be best for the OS and the cluster > management software. The OS has to be open source. Please give me some > advice on what you think you be the best performance solution for it. It > doesn''t matter if it's not free. " I'm no expert, but I think that question isn't complete unless they also say what it is they want to use it for - e.g. a dedicated mailserver cluster; a multi-user ssh machine; a high-performance computing engine for mathematical simulation etc.
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