Re: [BProc] RedHat 8.0 bproc

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>> I'm interested in running an 8.0 box with bproc support.  Is there any
>> howto/postings/rpms for Redhat 8.0?
>> 
>> Or should I be downloading stock 2.4.20 kernel and apply the bproc patch
>> from SourceForge?
>
>Try clustermatic 3 (http://www.clustermatic.org)
>
>It has a bunch of RPMs designed to be dropped on top of a clean RH 8.0
>installation.

For sure Clustermatic is an excellent choice.

Another one is HDDCS: ftp://ftp.harddata.com/pub/hddcs/3.2/2002-12-09/
(or look around at http://www.harddata.com/hddcs/downloads/)

If you happen to have hardware supported by RH kernel (RH call it 2.4.18
but includes tons of patches) and not supported even by 2.4.20, you
might be inclined towards HDDCS which adds bproc to RH kernel (while
Clustermatic adds bproc to vanilla stock kernels).

HDDCS also seems to include some wake-on-lan scripts and PXE boot
support (I did not try these).

I also have an unconfirmed feeling that MPICH via fast ethernet is
different (maybe free of some problems) in HDDCS while Clustermatic is
biased towards troublefree run on Myrinet.


And yet another source of some additional functionality might be to
recompile some source rpms from Scyld. They tend to be ancien and
there might be some work involved making them to work but there is a
lot of them. (I did not try this really long time so I may be totally
wrong here - maybe it is much better than I thing, maybe much worse.)


By the way, it would be nice to have something like "Bproc-based
distributions mixing HOWTO" concentrating this type of information.

Best Regards

Vaclav Hanzl