Linux vs FreeBSD clusters (was: how are the Redhat product changes affecting existing and future plans?)

[Jan Schaumann]

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Rayson Ho <raysonlogin at yahoo.com> wrote:
> A very good paper about building HPC clusters with FreeBSD:
> 
> "Building a High-performance Computing Cluster Using FreeBSD"
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~brooks/papers/bsdcon2003/
> 
> The author talked about hardware issues: KVM, BIOS redirection, CPU
> choices; and then talked about why he chose FreeBSD instead of Linux...
> he also did the port of GridEngine (SGE) to FreeBSD.
> 
> Anyone tried to setup HPC clusters with *BSD??

I have a 30 node NetBSD/i386 cluster, and just recently created the
tech-cluster at netbsd.org mailing list.  Some people are working on a port
of SGE to NetBSD, too.  I hope to expand the awareness of NetBSD in
particular for cluster usage in the near future.

Some URLs of relevance:

http://guinness.cs.stevens-tech.edu/~jschauma/hpcf/
http://www.netbsd.org/MailingLists/#tech-cluster
http://www.netbsd.org/
http://eurobsdcon.org/papers/#souvatzis
http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/20/1523252&mode=thread&tid=122&tid=185&tid=190
http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/11/05/1536226.shtml?tid=122&tid=185&tid=190

-Jan

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