[ydl-gen] Best cluster OS

[Owen Stampflee]

ROCKS seems swell if you can get it to run, but when we attempted to
evaluate it but it refused to install on the 4 generic whitebox PCs that
were purchased for it.

The next generation Y-HPC is going to kick some serious ass ;)

On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 13:41 -0600, Randy Zagar wrote:
> The Texas Advanced Computation Center at the University of Texas in
> Austin uses ROCKS for their 1024-node Dell cluster.  They seem to like
> it.
> 
> -RZ
> 
> > Hi,
> > At www.clusterbuilder.org/FAQ <http://www.clusterbuilder.org/FAQ> there is a
> > question about what OS and cluster management software are the best for a
> > cluster system. Does anyone have any advice on Yellow Dog Linux as a cluster
> > OS?
> > 
> > Here is the question:
> > 
> > "I'm bulding a project for a cluster that consists on 64 machines running
> > each 2x Dual Core AMD Opteron with 2GB of memory per core (8GB per machine).
> > We already have everything else accounted for except for the software. We
> > have serious doubts on what would be best for the OS and the cluster
> > management software. The OS has to be open source. Please give me some
> > advice on what you think you be the best performance solution for it. It
> > doesn''t matter if it's not free. "
> > 
> > Also, if anyone has any advice on cluster management software, please send
> > it. I am trying to build a knowldgebase of different opinions on software.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Nick
> 
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