Paul Greidanus wrote:
> Fernando C. Estrada wrote:
>> Hi all!
>>
>> I want to install a cluster with SL, if anyone know documentation about
>> it, please send me the url.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>   
> Hi Fernando,
>
> I'm currently runing a HPC cluster running Scientific Linux, and 
> OSCAR. http://oscar.openclustergroup.org
>
> OSCAR takes care of most of the details of installing and configuring 
> a HPC cluster..
>
> Paul
>
> BTW, a Scientific Linux/OSCAR cluster won the Cluster Challenge at 
> SuperComputing 2007! :)
Hi Paul - I have to install an HPC cluster over the break. We only do 
real dumb parallel processing
right now (ie. just kick multiple data reduction jobs off to the nodes, 
results collected on an nsf mounted
2TB array on the head node).   I was planning on migrating to SL5 for  
the re-install. The  current Oscar
only lists RHEL 4 as a supported OS.  I'm kind of assuming that that's 
because they simply haven't tested
with newer versions, but maybe some of the eg. glibc changes don't play 
well with their software. Do you
know off had whether an SL5 install is possible, or should I stick with 4.5
if I decide to use Oscar?  I don't see any info on their site about 
newer any newer OS.
BTW, the reason for wanting to go to 5 is that I've experienced very 
slow performance
with 4x on 3Ware cards (very slow response when any sort of disk I/O was 
going on) and
jumping to 5 fixed those issues.   Thanks for any info
-Karl