Clustering interests (Was Re: [Cialug] ISU Sale Notes)

[Paul Gray]

If things go as planned, I'll have an OSCAR demo at our Sept. CedarLUG
meeting.  OSCAR: Open Souce Cluster Administration Resources -- it's a
cookbook cluster building package, based on RedHat -- no Debian support
yet :(

Very slick and easy to build/administrate a cluster using OSCAR and the
C3 tools (Cluster Command & Control).

If anyone is interested, keep an eye on the CedarLUG announcements.

On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 deejoe@iastate.edu wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:44:30AM -0500, Nathan E. Pralle wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> Very nice summary.
>
> > That's about the gist of it. It's a good time all in all, and you can get
> > in some mighty interesting conversations and meet some great people who are
> > picking over things.
>
> Yup.  Those kids that Ricky (on Friday, before the server was taken down)
> was talking about building a cluster using surplus machines?  I was riding
> up to the sale, and saw three or four piles of machines, with all these kids
> milling around them like honeybees around a hive.
>
> I asked what they were going to do with them.
>
> Build a Linux cluster, they said (might have said Beowulf, might not have).
>
> Oh really, I said.
>
> Yeah, we've already got a few nodes, and we hope to add the rest of these to
> it before we're done at the end of the week.
>
> So, what distribution are you running?
>
> Debian.
>
> Woody?
>
> No, sarge.  That's the new unstable.
>
> (At this point, I looked puzzled, because I had just found out woody had
> gone stable, and didn't know the name of the unstable release yet.)
>
> and so on and so forth . . . I was just beside myself with delight at what
> they were doing, their intelligence and intensity and just general geek
> coolness.  It totally made my day.
>
>
> I tried to get a chance to talk with these kids some more, but didn't have
> much luck doing it "through channels".  I knew folks on the lists would be
> interested to hear about this sort of thing.
>
> Ricky, if you've got any other cool details about what they did this summer,
> dish!
>
> --Joe
>
>
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