[Beowulf] Poor man's SANS

[John Hearns]

> Yes!
>
> PVFS2 (http://www.pvfs.org/pvfs2) is my favorite option for this :).  My
> group at ANL along with Clemson University and Ohio Supercomputer Center
> and others are developing this.  It's entirely open source and open
> development, and is in production use at ANL, OSC, and the University of
> Utah CHPC, among other places.
>
> GFS (http://www.redhat.com/software/rha/gfs/) is another; I believe that
> RPMs are available for it now through one source or another.  This used to
> be Sistina's product, who was subsequently bought by RedHat.  I'm sure
> this is used in production in many business environments, and we use it at
> ANL also.  Can someone provide a URL for this one?
Source RPMs are of course available from RedHat,
and ou can get support for their version.

The Scientific Linux distribution has prebuilt RPMs
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/304/i386/SL/RPMS/