[Beowulf] getting kubuntu to perform as a cluster os

Tim Cutts tjrc at sanger.ac.uk
Sun Feb 10 03:01:08 PST 2008


On 10 Feb 2008, at 1:22 am, Geoff Jacobs wrote:

> Jon Aquilina wrote:
>> what would be necessary to get a normal desktop os such as kubuntu to
>> run as a clusterable os
>>
>> -- 
>> Jonathan Aquilina
> An ssh server. MPI. Compilers. Not sure if Kubuntu's kernel supports
> serving NFS with a kernel module,

It should do.

> Question is, why not use Ubuntu server?

A good question...

Tim


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