[CentOS] Configuring a cluster

Tue Feb 8 20:47:16 UTC 2011
James A. Peltier <jpeltier at sfu.ca>


----- 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
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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.

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