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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I recommend you Rocks distribution, it's easy to
install and management. it was just</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>took me one and half an hour to build a 16 node
cluster. With this </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>cluster distribution,
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>you can choose commercial RHEL 4, or its clone,
such as </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>CentOS.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Please refer to the following link:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://www.rocksclusters.org">www.rocksclusters.org</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Huiqun Zhou</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=lanhaiping@gmail.com href="mailto:lanhaiping@gmail.com">lan
haiping</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pw_forum@pwscf.org
href="mailto:pw_forum@pwscf.org">pw_forum@pwscf.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, April 15, 2006 12:33
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Pw_forum] Problem not related
PWscf</DIV>
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<DIV>Dear All:</DIV>
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<DIV> I am sorry to ask a question not related to the topics of
maillist.</DIV>
<DIV> I just want to know which distribution is good for building
HPC-cluster.My computers are AMD248-64bit cpu.</DIV>
<DIV>Recently, i tried to build with RHEL AS4.0, but failed due to unstable
NIS service. So , Would anyone have experience building
</DIV>
<DIV>HPC cluster for AMD x86-64 CPU? Would you please give me some
suggestion?</DIV>
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<DIV> Regards </DIV>
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<DIV>Hai-Ping</DIV>
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