so it wouldn't shorten the compile time of the packages? I would think it would because you are using the number of processors in your cluster as opposed to the number of processors in a computer. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 8:19 AM, George Toft wrote: > 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 > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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 >