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RedMap
08-19-2003, 04:53 PM
My friend from the US at the Uni of Surrey, UK, is wondering how to make a beowolf cluster. Windows keeps dying unnaturally and so he would llike to run CFX on a beowolf cluster of three machines connected over a ethernet connection.

Please, if anyone has any ideas of how to go about this I'd be very grateful.

cheers!
bascule
08-19-2003, 05:06 PM
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Beowulf-HOWTO.html

There's a lot of links in that document as well as the basics
RedMap
08-19-2003, 05:32 PM
Thank you very much, its got lots of links. Should suffice!

I'll pass this on. :)
mdwatts
08-19-2003, 06:13 PM
# locate Beowulf

/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/Beowulf
/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/Beowulf/Beowulf-HOWTO-1.html
/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/Beowulf/Beowulf-HOWTO-2.html
/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/Beowulf/Beowulf-HOWTO-3.html
/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/Beowulf/Beowulf-HOWTO-4.html
/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/Beowulf/Beowulf-HOWTO-5.html
/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/Beowulf/Beowulf-HOWTO-6.html
/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/Beowulf/Beowulf-HOWTO.html
mdwatts
08-19-2003, 07:37 PM
BTW...

Are the distros I use (Caldera/SCO/SuSE) the only ones that actually install the how-to's etc. from www.tldp.org ??

/usr/share/doc (all in there)

Strange that mine are the only distros that do or are installed by default. :confused:
bascule
08-19-2003, 07:42 PM
I'm not sure, in Mandrake you have to install the documentation as an extra option, I presumed most distros wouldn't ship with the Beowulf HOW-TO. Though yes I have the docs on mine, but they come off disc 3 :confused:
Ludootje
08-21-2003, 02:22 PM
Originally posted by mdwatts
BTW...

Are the distros I use (Caldera/SCO/SuSE) the only ones that actually install the how-to's etc. from www.tldp.org ??

/usr/share/doc (all in there)

Strange that mine are the only distros that do or are installed by default. :confused:
Those packages can be uninstalled. I know SuSE installs them by default, not sure about the other distros. With Debian's apt-get, if you want to install a package for which there are docs, it will recommend you install those packages.
The problem is that most people don't know they have it installed. Just like the man pages - at first I thought 'man foo' meant the same as 'rtfm about it', I had no idea there was a 'man' command :)
Ludootje
08-21-2003, 02:22 PM
You (or you friend) should check out the OpenMosix clusters, it's much, much easier to do.
See http://openmosix.sourceforge.net/
RedMap
08-21-2003, 03:02 PM
thanks, openmosix sounds pretty good. Dont know how well it'll work with his software, but I'll find out.

thanks, I found HOWTOs in:

/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/Beowulf

However, I had the unfortunate problem of not knowing how to spell it correctly as you can see in the starting post - 'beowolf'. Sorry!

Cheers!
Ludootje
08-21-2003, 04:38 PM
OpenMosix works with all software. Beowulf clusters don't. IBM developerworks (developerworks.ibm.com) has a small howto about OpenMosix. It's an awesome howto which explains it very, very well. You can just skip the the installation & configuration part, then you'll totally understand how it works. That howto is very well-written as well.