48 node cluster....hmm... who actually assembly this?
was in house 'techs'
or outside help?
Use debian/suse/mandrake....redhats...sucks (biscuits).
Cheers,
Lee
On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 14:26, Tom Allender wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 14:15, Ben Blackburne wrote:
> > I'm at the Computational Chemistry unit at the University of Nottingham.
> > We have just installed a 48-node dual Athlon cluster. Its running Redhat
> > with the SCore software (http://pccluster.org/) and Sun Grid Engine. 16
> > nodes have myrinet, the rest have only ethernet.
>
> Very cool. I nearly took Computational Chem. at Nottingham...
>
> > It is however, at the moment, remarkably unstable :-(. The main node
> > crashes every so often with no messages in the log. The suspects include
> > dodgy hardware and not enough cooling. The hardware of the main node has
> > just been replaced so we should know soon if that was the problem.
>
> Naive shot in the dark. Is it Red Hat 7.3 with 2.4.18-3? There was an
> errata kernel released as 2.4.18-3 had a repeatable panic with ext3 on
> SMP systems.
>
> Tom.
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