[Bioclusters] Setting up a small cluster

[Lars G.T.Jorgensen]

Malay Kumar Basu <curiouser@ccmb.res.in> writes:

> 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?

It's a good thing if the machines can do PXE boot and wake-on-lan. It
enables you to do a unattended installation. It good thing to learn how to do
 if your going to build a bigger cluster later.

> 
> Malay
> curiouser@ccmb.res.in
> 
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Mvh|Regards, Lars
Graduate student 
Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen