[TriLUG] Penguin Computing Servers & Clustering

Elliot Peele ebpeele2 at pams.ncsu.edu
Fri Jul 18 15:44:35 EDT 2003


At NCSU we are using Rocks (http://rockclusters.org). We have switched
from using Scyld because of there slow release cycle (they only had a
install based on 6.2 for three years), there lack of errata, there
interpretation of the GPL (ie. we don't have to give you anything for 3
years), etc. Rock is working much better for us and seems to have more
development and developers behind it to keep it going.

I am in the process of buying a small 16 node cluster from dell. Dell
was able to offer me better pricing than penguin, but I think that is
because its end of quarter for dell and they are despaired for business,
at least from the educational sector. I did take quotes from penguin and
there per node price was less, however there price on peripherals wasn't
nearly as good as dells.

Elliot

On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 08:02, Jay Barrett wrote:
> Hi Joe,
> 
> Do you mind me asking what software you are using to manage your cluster and
> if it is all going to be in one location.  I have started doing some
> research into grids and clusters and would be interested in hearing how you
> make out.
> 
> At one time there was a small amount of interest in clusters at Trilug
> didn't know if anyone still has any interest or not.
> 
> Regards,
> Jay
> 
> TGIF
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