[Pw_forum] Problem not related PWscf

[Axel Kohlmeyer]

On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, lan haiping wrote:

LH> Dear All:
LH> 
LH>    I am sorry to ask a question not related to the topics of maillist.
LH>   I just want to  know which distribution is good for building
LH> HPC-cluster.My computers are AMD248-64bit cpu.
LH> Recently, i tried to build with RHEL AS4.0, but failed due to unstable
LH> NIS service.  So ,  Would anyone have experience building

hmmm. are you sure you are not overloading the headnode?
we've made good experiences with RHEL clones.

LH> HPC cluster for AMD x86-64 CPU? Would you please give me some suggestion?

you may want to dig through the resources at
https://www.liniac.upenn.edu/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=HomePage
especially the system administration section has a lot of useful hints
for the guys running quite a few clusters here at penn (9 in total, IIRC).

regards,
    axel.

LH> 
LH>  Regards
LH> 
LH> Hai-Ping
LH> 

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