suggestions for setting up a cluster in Fedora/CentOS

[Ranjan Maitra]

Yes, of course! Sorry about that.

On Sat, 3 Jan 2015 11:48:49 -0500 bruce <badouglas at gmail.com> wrote:

> what do you want to the cluster to do?

MPI (Message Passing Interface) using OpenMPI perhaps and also the ability to run jobs from the headnode in a queue.

> how much management do you want to do?

Some, I guess, is only expected. But I don't fancy this becoming a full-time vocation.

> do you want to slap VM/virtual machines on each box?

I wasn't planning on this, but is there an advantage to slapping VMs on each box?

> more data from you might get more useful comments!

Sorry again!

Many thanks and best wishes,
Ranjan 


> thanks
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Ranjan Maitra
> <maitra.mbox.ignored at inbox.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have my hands on five slightly older (circa 2009-top-of-the-line) dual quad-cores, one of them has 16GB memory, the others have 8GB. All of them are otherwise identical. I want to try my hand at making a cluster out of them using Fedora 21 or CentOS 7. Are there any comprehensive documents someone could point me to? I am not sure what sort of cluster (ROCKs/Beowulf, etc) to set up, and I am also looking at this as a learning experience, so any suggestions in this regard would also be very helpful.
> >
> > Many thanks and best wishes,
> > Ranjan
> >
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