----- Original Message ----- | 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 | > | _______________________________________________ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS at centos.org | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos It sounds like you are looking for HPC. In which case, as a contributor to ROCKS I can recommended it as a great out of the box cluster system. There are also many other packages such as perceus, xCAT, Copper, etc which are available. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpeltier at sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier