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Linux Cluster HOWTO
Ram Samudrala
(me@ram.org)
v1.0, March 17, 2003
How to set up high-performance Linux computing clusters.
1.
Introduction
2.
Hardware
2.1 Node hardware
2.2 Server hardware
2.3 Desktop hardware
2.4 Firewall/gateway hardware
2.5 Miscellaneous/accessory hardware
2.6 Putting-it-all-together hardware
2.7 Costs
3.
Software
3.1 Operating system: Linux, of course!
3.2 Networking software
3.3 Parallel processing software
3.4 Costs
4.
Set up, configuration, and maintenance
4.1 Disk configuration
4.2 Package configuration
4.3 Operating system installation and maintenance
4.4 Known hardware issues
4.5 Known software issues
5.
Performing tasks on the cluster
5.1 Rough benchmarks
5.2 Uptimes
6.
Acknowledgements
7.
Bibliography
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