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Need help setting up beowulf cluster on two older RS/6000's with PPC CPU's

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Abzstrak

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I have aquired two older RS/6000's with 256MB RAM each and each have 2 2.1GB SCSI drives each, and a cdrom. They also have IBM SSA cards and I have an external storage array box with 5 9.1GB drives in it that plugs into both for shared storage. Each machine has two NIC's, however neither has a video board (both ran only from the console).

I would like to set the two up in a cluster (for the hell of it) and I would like to run linux. According to IBM's site, AIX is the only certified OS, but I bet with some work linux will work.

I'm guessing my first try will be to use linuxppc(downloaded from here )

I have no idea how to setup a cluster at all nor how to do so only using the console port, so any help and/or links would be appreciated.

I figured I could run a crossover between two of the NIC's for communications between the boxes, and the other NICs to my switch.

Also, does anyone have any idea if I went ahead and installed X if it would run remotely through my windows box (maybe using xwin32 or hummingbird), or maybe through my laptop running RH71?

Thanx for any info
 
beowulf clusters have to be remotely admined by another box, none of the computers in the cluster are actually cluster aware, which is why reliability is terrible on them (one box goes down your result is invalid). theres probably a better clustering method available under aix that won't require a management box, you should probably look into that. and i'm pretty sure that the rs/6000 has power processors, not ppc. they're similar, but not the same.
 
My advice is to contact Clay Autry who is a member of Team Anandtech, just ask in Distributed Computing forum, he has used Beauwolf clusters before.
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i thought IBM chips use the power pc architecture, which is the same as motorola (apple) chips. Yellow dog linux should run on it no problem then.
 
They're definitely power pc's... I was trying with linuxppc, I forgot totally about yellow dog, I'll have to try that.
 
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