It just so happens that the following link uses FreeBSD as the OS, but you should be able to easily adapt this to linux: http://blizzard.rwic.und.edu/~nordlie/miniwulf/ HTH On Nov 19, 2008, at 1:44 PM, Mike Miller wrote: > We are thinking about putting together a cluster of maybe 10 machines, > presumably using GNU/Linux. Do any of you have experience with this? > > Some of the things I'm wondering about include the appropriate > configuration of machines -- isn't it better in terms of cost/ > benefit to > buy fewer dual quad-core machines than more single CPU machines, > especially if the jobs are not very memory-instensive? > > We certainly want to use shared disks, but is there any problem with > booting all the computers from the same network drive? That seems > like a > good idea to me rather than to have separate HDDs in the machines, > but I'm > not sure how it is done. > > What free software is available for managing jobs, e.g., batch > queuing? > > FYI ... The idea is to use these machines for our genetic analyses -- > maybe 600,000 SNPs on 7,500 people, but this mostly consists of > running > one SNP at a time on some collection of traits. I don't think the > memory > requirements are too great unless we try to load a lot of the data at > once. > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list --- Eric Crist