On Tuesday, February 08, 2011 04:52:27 pm Johnny H wrote: > 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. What you describe here is quite clearly a compute cluster, HPC, or whatever you want to call it. Maybe you should go have a look at a packaged solution like rocks (www.rocksclusters.org). If you don't have much experience I'd recommend against building something yourself. With rocks you'll also get the benefit of prepackaged bio-informatics stuff (rocks has a large community). /Peter > If I get anywhere without a sys admin, I will post (maybe another > question). > > Cheers, -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110208/0864c6d0/attachment-0005.sig>