[wplug] Starting From Scratch

Brandon Poyner bpoyner at gmail.com
Sat Apr 21 10:32:48 EDT 2007


On 4/21/07, Michael H. Semcheski <mhsemcheski at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is what I'd like to do -- when I was at CMU (back around the turn of the century), I
> thought that the Redhat Linux clusters were the best on campus.  The solaris and irix
> machines were alright, but the linux machines were beefier.
>
> But it was so cool to log onto any computer and get the same window manager, settings,
> home directory, etc.
>
> It sounds like AFS is the way to do it.  Doing it on a budget, that will be the trick.

You might want to take a look at Scientific Linux.  It's basically a
recompiled Red Hat Enterprise Linux with added features such as the
Red Hat cluster suite, OpenAFS, GFS, etc.  It's being used by CERN and
Fermilab, among others.

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Brandon
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