The Rocks operating system is made especially for clusters. Rocks is a RedHat based operating system. Rocks has a lot of interesting features which make your life easy. It is very easy to be installed. To install Rocks visit the official website of Rocks Clusterhttp://www.rocksclusters.org/wordpress/ where you can download Rocks and have the handout of installation.
Man, I hate this.... I want so much to build one but I don't have any use for one. It will just sit collecting dust. So I will just have an expensive dust-bunny maker!
:-)~MIKE~(-:On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Stephen Partington <cryptworks@gmail.com> 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.