penguin_nipple's Journal: Beowulf Clustering

Well, on Thursday of alst week, I finally recieved my donated computers from Goldman-Sachs in toronto. I got 20 machines, all Spacrstations, 5/10/20. They are gorgeous machines, a bit dated, but so is a 1968 corvette...:o)

So I am currently installing one machine with an old SCSI 1 gig HD to test out how well Linux runs with it. So far, perfect, I am currently apt-getting my distro. Install was smooth as silk , all hardware immediatley detected. So looks like I will be able to focus primarily on the optimization of the cluster. So far it appears that I will make a 16 node cluster. A nice starting point. I have also documented alot of the work thus far and will be making a website to contain all the information thus far. It has been a long time coming. One year of trying to secure funds and equipment and it looks like I am there now. No comment on the participation of the university though. More aptly put, they want the marketing value but shy away from any financial involvement. Oh well scrwe 'em, I doubt they could build a cluster with a budget of $800!