I would use whatever distribution offers the best community forum (support). I like Red Hat / Fedora (no distro war!!!) because so many people use it, someone has usually solved my problem and I just need to google for it. In my Mosix cluster, I only had to recompile the kernels and rpm install them on the other systems (plus NFS setup, IIRC). I think Linux from scratch would make your build time much much longer. Regards, George Toft On 3/21/2014 6:36 AM, Michael Havens wrote: > would using it to compile linux from scratch be a good use for it? > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 2:23 AM, eric oyen > wrote: > > um.... Yeah! I would certainly call that a big "OOOOOOOOOPS!". > Still, we have far better code today than 12 years ago. > > -eric > > On Mar 21, 2014, at 12:04 AM, George Toft wrote: > > > I built a mosix cluster about 12 years ago - much kernel > re-compiling - and then I found out my workload was > single-threaded - oops :) > > > > Regards, > > > > George Toft > > > > On 3/20/2014 12:59 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > >> >>well if you Google beowulf cluster you will find the first > one i had learned about. but there are a number of options out there. > >> > >> the main thing is once you have it set up you need to figure > out what you will do with it. and that is where it gets > interesting because you then usually have to build and design a > workload for it. > >> > >> > >> :-)~MIKE~(-: > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------- > >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss