<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><title></title><head><meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><style type="text/css"> html, body {overflow-x: visible; } html { width:100%; height:100%;margin:0px; padding:0px; overflow-y: auto; overflow-x: auto; }body { font-size: 100.01%; font-family : Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color:transparent; overflow:show; background-image:none; margin:0px; padding:5px; }p { margin:0px; padding:0px; } body { font-size: 12px; font-family : Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #FFFFFF; } p { margin: 0; padding: 0; } blockquote { padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; } blockquote.quote { border-left: 1px solid #CCC; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; } .misspelled { background: transparent url(//images.gmx.com/images/outsource/application/mailclient/com/gb/resource/mailclient/widgets/basic/parts/maileditor/spellchecking_underline--2059579451-2009-2.gif) repeat-x scroll center bottom; } .correct {} .unknown {} .ignored {}</style></head><body id="bodyElement" style=""> <p size="2" style="font-family: Verdana;">Hi everyone,<span></span></p><p><span></span><span></span><br></p><p size="2" style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I'm a mechanical engineering graduate student from Croatia (Europe :) and I'm doing computational continuum mechanics simulations using OpenFOAM (</span>http://www.opencfd.co.uk/openfoam/). I have only one year experience in using Linux and C++/Python programming, and I need some advice.<span></span></p><p><span></span><span></span><br></p><p><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> I have a NOW (6 workstations) running OpenSUSE Linux at my disposal to do what ever I want with it, and I'm thinking of beowulfing it. Also, out of my own interest and the mere coolnes of the idea, I would like to assemble a very cheap (real) one at home, so I can produce simulation results faster. For a beginner in Linux like me, how impossible are these goals? If they are feasible, after competing professor Brown's book, what would be the next step? I'm very interested and I'm prepared to devote 100s of hours on this, but I'm also worried for two reasons: 1) lack of Linux administration experience, 2) making wrong choices in hardware and thus spending my own money the wrong way. :) <br></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> I would be grateful for ANY advice, if I aim to high, please let me know. </span>One of the reasons for this idea was a question that appeared on a tutorial for making a Beowulf cluster: "What is Linux?", and I believe that my startin g point, however low, is at least a year above that.<span></span></p><p><span></span><span></span><br></p><p><span style="">Thank you,</span><span></span></p><p><span></span><span></span><br></p><p><span style="">sincerely,</span><span></span></p><p><span></span><span></span><br></p><p><span style="">Tomislav<br></span></p><p><span></span></p><p size="2" style="font-family: Verdana;"><br> <br></p><div id="editor_signature"><p style="font-family: Verdana;" size="2"></p><p></p><p></p></div><p></p></body></html>