[Bioclusters] Re: Linux vs FreeBSD clusters

[Luiz Eugenio Fernandes Tenorio]

Hi,

	We have a 64 node cluster entire based on FreeBSD 5.1 for high 
performance computing at the Federal University of Alagoas 
(http://www.typhon.ufal.br). It has 36 Dell Pentium IV 2.4GHz nodes and 
36 Gateway Atlhon 1GHz using a fast-ethernet network (the peak 
performance for Dell machines, measured with xhpl, is 37 Gflops).
	Applications may use MPI for inter-process communication. For the 
cluster management we are testing the Ganglia 
(http://ganglia.sourceforge.net) and for scheduling the Maui 
(http://supercluster.org/maui).

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Rayson Ho wrote:
> A very good paper about building HPC clusters with FreeBSD:
> 
> "Building a High-performance Computing Cluster Using FreeBSD"
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~brooks/papers/bsdcon2003/
> 
> The author talked about hardware issues: KVM, BIOS redirection, CPU
> choices; and then talked about why he chose FreeBSD instead of Linux...
> he also did the port of GridEngine (SGE) to FreeBSD.
> 
> Anyone tried to setup HPC clusters with *BSD??
> 
> Rayson
> 
> 
> --- Fernan Aguero <fernan@iib.unsam.edu.ar> wrote:
> 
>>Any FreeBSD users willing to share clustering experiences
>>out there?
>>
>>Fernan
> 
> 
> 
> 
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