From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from megatonmonkey.net (cr821974-a.lndn1.on.wave.home.com [24.112.53.173]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB5CA482A for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 14:20:52 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 16:21:32 -0400 From: "Carlos O'Donell Jr." To: John Hagreis Cc: parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] clustering ?? Message-ID: <20010611162132.A846@megatonmonkey.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from jha@xs4all.nl on Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:50:54PM +0200 List-ID: On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:50:54PM +0200, John Hagreis wrote: > Hi there, > > I've got two B132L+ systems running with the 0.6 release. I wondered if > there was someone who has experience with clustering these systems ..... > Anyone ..... > Tia, > > John Hagreis. John, Clustering -> HA Systems -> Clustered Services -> Linux Virtual Server ? Clustering -> Computational Clustering -> Beowulf / COW / NOW ? I'll assume the later. We have a cluster of ~48 715/50 Apollo systems. Our current bottleneck (will be working on this tommorow evening) is not having a functional rsh for MPI to use (MPICH 1.2.1). Our setup: - 3x 10/100 24 Port Switches, Baystack E450's - NIS / NFS / Gateway Machines (x86 boxes) - 2x 8' Racks of 48 712/50 PA-RISC Boxes (can you say warm :) Visit: http://www.baldric.uwo.ca/index.php3 For our latest exploits (recipies coming soon). What are you looking to do with your systems? You might want to check out http://www.beowulf.org (Or even join the mailing list! Excellent discussion for those interested). Clustering using PA-RISC hardware is the same as clustering using any other hardware, with the expection that: - OS is under development (stability may vary) - Need to understand low level OS functionality. If anyone else on the list is working on clustering using PA-RISC boxes, please share the stories. As far as we know, we are the only group doing something as crazy as using unsupported PA-RISC hardware to run a beowulf. War stories? Success stories? Thanks to Byron Sonne for donating his 712/60 box for testing! Cheers, Carlos O'Donell ------------------------- Baldric Project http://www.baldric.uwo.ca -------------------------