Beowulf Cluster Advice?

[cinohpa]

I'm looking to set up a beowulf cluster on some of my home machines. I've been trying to do research on it, but for the most part I haven't found anything recent. All the articles I'm finding are 2-3 years old, I imagine there have to be some more recent cluster solutions?

Thanks.

[btmiller]

Have you looked at www.clustermonkey.net -- they have some up to date articles. However, there's no "one size fits all" recipe for building a Beowulf (how you set it up often depends on the type of application you want to run), so you're best doing a bit of experimenting. Remember that to use a Beowulf, you need code that is designed to run in parallel accross many machines.

[machoo02]

Have you read about the Microwulf project (http://www.calvin.edu/~adams/research/microwulf/) from Calvin College? This was a few years back, but they used Ubuntu to build a small, portable Beowulf cluster. They even have system configuration notes on how they set it up.

[KatBuntu]

There's a project called rockscluster, it has a lot of features and it has a lot of support.
It's not difficult to build a beowulf with this plataform, you only need some computers and a ethernet switch to connect them, the metod to create and install the nodes and other peripherals is very simple.
This distribution is used in a lot of universities of US and Europe.
In the actual version developers introduced a virtualization feature.

I hope this works for you

www.rocksclusters.org (http://www.rocksclusters.org)