Greetings to everyone,<br>
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It is a pleasure to interact with this scientific community.&nbsp;
Costa Rica recently has begun to explore the possibilities that cluster
computing and Grid offer. At the present time, I'm in charge of the
implementation of a general cluster and Grid strategy for supporting
scientific activities in e National Center of High Technology and later
in our principal universities. This aims towards the reinforcement of
research and academic improvement as well.<br>
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We would like to extend an invitation to this community for possible
suggestions. One of the most important goals is in a mid-term period to
be able to connect to the Grid project. Also, we are are also starting
interaction with the PRAGMA Project thanks to Ph.D. Jose Castro Mora.<br>
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One last question:<br>
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Currently I'm configuring our UltraSparc-based cluster with Gentoo
Linux, but I'd rather prefer to explore Scientific Linux and the
experience on scientific computation you have developed. Is there any
sparc build available? For the rest of the clusters I believe we will
be working on x86 or ia64 architectures, so there won't be any special
requirements.<br>
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Thanks.<br>
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Santiago Nunez<br>
Centro Nacional de Alta Tecnologia - Instituto Tecnologico de Costa Rica<br>
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