[Beowulf] Cluster of Linux and Windows

[Leonardo Machado Moreira]

Basicaly, Is a Cluster Implementation just based on these two libraries MPI
on the Server and SSH on the clients??

And a program on tcl/tk for example on server to watch the cluster?

Thanks a lot.

Leonardo Machado Moreira




On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Bruno Coutinho <coutinho at dcc.ufmg.br>wrote:

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> 2009/11/12 Leonardo Machado Moreira <lm.moreira at gmail.com>
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>> Hi, I am new on Clusters and have some doubts about them.
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>> I am used to work with Arch Linux. What do you think about it?
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>> And finnaly, I would like to know if Is it possible to get a Cluster
>> Working with a Server on Arch Linux and the nodes Windows.
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>> Or even better the nodes without a defined SO.
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> You should have same MPI implementation on all machines (despite windows
> adds some network overhead) and choose a method to launch process in slave
> machines (ssh , mpd, etc).
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>> What do you think?, Does it worth?
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>> Thanks in advance.
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>> Leonardo Machado Moreira.
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