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Date:      Sat, 18 Oct 2008 23:51:26 -0500
From:      "Rayson Ho" <raysonlogin@gmail.com>
To:        "Gerardo Paredes" <gerardon_paredes@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to on building a High Performance Server on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <73a01bf20810182151w4d66c1a3l17034d26290b12c8@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <385548.33714.qm@web65611.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>
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On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Gerardo Paredes
<gerardon_paredes@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Yes we do intend to use MPI, but i was talking about how to setup the cluster 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, netbooting machines, or can we arrange a setup of fully installed FreeBSD7.0 workstation to use their resources whenever somebody is not using them?
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> 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 setup a cluster on it.

Not a HOWTO, but I think it is one of the best I have been on HPC
clustering on FreeBSD:

"Building a High-performance Computing Cluster Using FreeBSD"

http://people.freebsd.org/~brooks/papers/bsdcon2003/

You can also read other papers related to the subject at:
http://people.freebsd.org/~brooks/papers/

Rayson



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