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<DIV><SPAN class=020291714-22022002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>From
personal experience, RedHat 6 and 7 are very good to work with. PVM
already comes precompiled and installed with RedHat 6+ and there is really very
little to setup else wise. Here is a good link to get you
started....</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=020291714-22022002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><A
href="http://www.xtreme-machines.com/x-cluster-qs.html">http://www.xtreme-machines.com/x-cluster-qs.html</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=020291714-22022002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>You
can get away with a custom install (base, network, cluster, nfs server, code
development, kernel development [if you need to run mosix or
something] and possibly a couple of others.) This should limit your
space requirement. Obviously you don't need language files unless your
staff comes from different nationalities and you probably won't need gimp (Man I
can't wait til that goes clusterable! It'll have photoshop all over the
place.)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=020291714-22022002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>As far
as package requirements go, any RedHat distro should cover the bases. The
only other packages you might want are..</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=020291714-22022002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>MPICH
- <A
href="http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich/">http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich/</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=020291714-22022002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>SCMS -
<A
href="http://www.beowulf-underground.org/software.html">http://www.beowulf-underground.org/software.html</A> (You
can find the link here as well as other software)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=020291714-22022002>NTP
Setup - (http://<A href="http://www.ntp.org">www.ntp.org</A>) for setting up the
time protocol. RedHat includes the software.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=020291714-22022002>Please
feel free to e-mail the list if you run into trouble!</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=020291714-22022002>Good
luck and happy clustering.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<P><FONT size=2>Kevin Wood<BR>GSHiis, Inc.<BR><A href="http://www.gshiis.com/"
target=_blank>http://www.gshiis.com</A><BR>kwood@gshiis.com</FONT> </P>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> beowulf-admin@beowulf.org
[mailto:beowulf-admin@beowulf.org]<B>On Behalf Of
</B>AskB0b@aol.com<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, February 22, 2002 3:09
AM<BR><B>To:</B> beowulf@beowulf.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Beowulf OS and
Installation<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0
face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF">I am doing some research on parallel
computing for my Senior thesis and the time has come to put aside all my
written work and build a Beowulf cluster.<BR><BR>I was curious as to if Redhat
was an acceptable choice and if version 5, 6, or 7 was preferred? I am
working with very limited HDs so I need to know what packages are necessary
and which ones aren't so important.<BR><BR>I do have some networking
experience but a rather limited knowledge of Linux.<BR>I am excited and eager
to learn though, so bear with me ; )
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