<div>Berkley,</div>
<div>I'm looking forward to the forthcoming advice, but as a dilettetante in the field, I'll take the opportunity to presage two things:</div>
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<div>1. RGB will say Fedora. You said Physics. Think of RGB has your Guardian Angel.</div>
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<div>2. Everyone will say, "how many nodes? what kind of budget are we talking about? Which applications are you targetting first, or project to need?" I think the most helpful thing would be to project the number of nodes you have in mind, e.g. 8, like me, or 8096? Makes huge differences in the network topolgies possible. Is the budget more like "using a dozen or so available outmoded workstations" or "they are building a two acre site to house it now"? </div>
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<div>Peter <br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 7, 2008 10:45 AM, Berkley Starks <<a href="mailto:bjtstarks@gmail.com">bjtstarks@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hello all,<br><br>I've been a computer user for the past several years working in different areas of the IT world. I've recently been commissioned by my university to set up the first operating Beowulf Cluster.<br>
<br>I'm am moderately familiar with the Linux OS, having ran it for the past several years using the distro's of Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora Core, and Mandriva.<br><br>With setting up this new cluster I would like any advice possible on what OS to use, how to set it up, and any other pertinent information that I might need.<br>
<br>Thanks,<br><br>Berkley Starks<br><br>Oh, and the cluster will be used for computational physics. I am a physics major making it for the physics department here. It will need to be able to use C++ and Fortran at a bare minimum.<br>
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