From owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 18 15:48:32 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2CAF106568B for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:48:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerardon_paredes@yahoo.com) Received: from web65611.mail.ac4.yahoo.com (web65611.mail.ac4.yahoo.com [76.13.9.79]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5BE068FC0A for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:48:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerardon_paredes@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 34527 invoked by uid 60001); 18 Oct 2008 15:48:31 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=hMqhoiN32+EmqJbBNnadhuVhO9NKptVSvyJZHxHXTIJMl/2ry9sPsXQOzxr1aHgX9YJdCN0hZa/QZw5shnYM5KqHF32rE1AI3TI2g7jd5STrskGCSrlmg8kwDHPqyvnDobhmFLogMmF7BSYFcHv2u3/udBabjsGJsuqMWQjg84Y=; X-YMail-OSG: ww0gn6MVM1nD97BqDwbOMo7ifDstolnwydUic5xl1VT75Sd3bMVitsozbX7lq4I8kuZaA4NsKu99lmxbE5RwmQAMkVE5S5OQhYlhMVgyfRbxrcWLqS.piVTitUuTon7AxjF9mnPUss0mvWZ1o6z9m2riYWVN9jMZTXROOt7mc63HjmY- Received: from [63.245.17.123] by web65611.mail.ac4.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:48:31 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.218.2 Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:48:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Gerardo Paredes To: Stanislav Sedov In-Reply-To: <20081018143454.54a444d8.stas@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <385548.33714.qm@web65611.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:06:14 +0000 Cc: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to on building a High Performance Server on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Clustering FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:48:32 -0000 --- On Sat, 10/18/08, Stanislav Sedov wrote: From: Stanislav Sedov Subject: Re: How to on building a High Performance Server on FreeBSD To: gerardon_paredes@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Date: Saturday, October 18, 2008, 3:34 AM On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:15:50 -0700 (PDT) Gerardo Paredes mentioned: > I am giving a course for students who are about to finish their undergraduate classes on Systems Engineering. We are trying to set up a Hig= h Performance cluster for mathematic applications.=A0=A0 Does someone on the = list know of a well written "howto" kind of document we can support whenever we get stuck at something. > =A0 What mechanism do you plan to use for parallel computation? If you'll go for MPI I think the setup won't be different from any other UNIX, so any documentation will apply.=20 Yes we do intend to use MPI, but i was talking about how to setup the clust= er going through the NFS install, where to put /home, at the NFS server or = locally?, if would be better to install the worker nodes as diskless, netbo= oting machines, or can we arrange a setup of fully installed FreeBSD7.0 wor= kstation to use their resources whenever somebody is not using them?=20 I believe this point hasn't been worked enough on the FreeBSD documentation= , as good as the Handbook is, there isn't good documentation on how to setu= p a cluster on it. Gerardo Paredes =0A=0A__________________________________________________=0ADo You Yahoo!?= =0ATired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around =0Ahttp:= //mail.yahoo.com