Dear all, Thank you very much for your answers; am a little overwhelmed as I did not expect so many so fast. I will take a look at your suggestions and sites. The cluster is medium performance for something called bioinformatics; we are looking at next generation sequence data. I know it had Centos installed and was using Torque/PBS for running cluster jobs. This was set up by a company and we want to install fresh. If I get anywhere without a sys admin, I will post (maybe another question). Cheers, On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > On 2/8/2011 8:54 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> Johnny H wrote: >>> Dear Centos users, >>> I am not sure if this the correct place to post but it seems sensible. >>> I have an 8 node cluster which I want to install/configure Centos. As >>> I am not a sys-admin, can anyone advise me on what I should do? >>> >>> Any suggestions appreciated. >> >> What do you mean by "cluster"? Is this for high-availability (H/A), or >> load balancing for very heavy traffic, or high performance computing? Each >> is different. > > Or, these days there is even a category of distributed databases like > riak that work across a group of machines, and only the app needs to be > set up for clustering. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >