On 11/15/11 7:09 PM, Tony Schreiner wrote: > I recommend you check out ROCKS > > http://www.rocksclusters.org awhile back I setup a little test OSCAR cluster, which used CentOS, and found it quite nicely packaged and easy to deploy with a rich set of tools... but I have no idea where its gone since (and this was years ago) IIRC (again, this was years ago), you setup Oscar on a master server running CentOS with a pile of slaves 'behind' it, then net boot up the slaves and they install themselves off the master, and run whatever MPI applications you have for the cluster, deployed and managed by the master. Ganglia was used to monitor the whole mess. It had a bunch of other stuff that I forget what all, as basically we decided it wasn't suitable for where we were going so put it aside. ah, here's the project webpile... http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar -- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast