[Bioclusters] Setting up a small cluster

[Malay Kumar Basu]

Thanks everyone for your help. After going through all the material I have
decided to do this.

The cluster will have 7 nodes with this config:

#1. AMD Athalon >=1.6 GHz
#2. ASUS motherboard with onboard video RAM (8 MB)
#3. Floppy drive
#4. Gigabit ethernet
#5. 20 GB ULTRA ATA HD
#6. 1GB DDR RAM

It will have one server (head) with these:

#1. AMD Athalon >= 1.6 GHz
#2. ASUS Motherboard 
#3. 32 AGP card
#4. 1 GB DDR RAM 
#5. >= 80 GB SCSI hard drive
#6. Floppy drive
#7. Internal ZIP drive
#8. CDRW drive
#9. Two Gigabit NICs one for cluster, one for the external ethernet.

I will go for 8 port full duplex Gigabit ethernet switch. I'll leave out
KVM for the moment.

The cluster will run Sun grid engine with Redhat 8/9. 

Do you guys think this is good enough. Or anyone has any suggestion?

Malay
curiouser@ccmb.res.in