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 <eric.oyen@gmail.com> 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~(-:
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