Thanks a lot...We are going ahead with it..Wish me luck<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mark Hahn</b> <<a href="mailto:hahn@mcmaster.ca">hahn@mcmaster.ca</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> We are planning to set up a linux cluster on trail basis in our<br>> college.Since its merely a trail,we have been alloted PIII PCs with 128 MB
<br>> Ram and 40 GB HD on a 100 MBps LAN.All i want to know is,will this hardware<br>> support a cluster? Moreover which distro/software to begin with? If this<br>> trial succeeds we will get whatever hardware we
want.But I just want this<br>> trial to succeed.Please help me.<br><br>I say you should keep it simple. just install some basic distro like<br>centos on all the nodes (just a minimal install - you DEFINITELY don't
<br>want all the gui/user/etc junk). make sure you have ssh, but you can<br>skip everything desktop-related. install mpich. be happy.<br><br>if you're familiar with Linux, ssh and mpich, this should take not much time
<br>at all. things like monitoring and management are wonderful things, and<br>necessary for any significant-sized cluster, but certainly not for a<br>proof-of-concept. with 128M PIII's, the examples you'll be able to
<br>demonstrate will be quite small, but still believable if you avoid extras.<br><br>regards, mark hahn.<br></blockquote></div><br>