Hi everyone.

I'm looking for a good Solution to make a high Performance Cluster with 5-20 nodes. I've alredy tried clusterknoppix but i am lokking for something simmilar.

What would you advice me to use?

Thanks for any ideas or suggestions.

Kind reguards

It depends on what kind of cluster you wanna make. There are High-availability (HA) clusters, Load-balancing clusters, Compute clusters, Grid computing etc.

I suggest that you first read this.

Here are a few links that might be useful to you; Kerrighed, OpenSSI, Linux-HA, Beowulf, MPICH2, distcc.

well i'm looking for some kind of grid computing or high-performance-computing-cluster

i have to run a application that can be compared to a PI-calculation

what would you advice me to use?
which distro? live or physically installed?

kind reguards

Well of course that I'd suggest you to use Debian. If I remember correctly, OpenSSI have version for Debian Sarge with work going on to make it available for Etch and Lenny. I don't know what's the status now.

Here's the Debian Clusters web site.

Physically installed distro is better for performance.

Have a look at SourceForge/Clustering too.

I'm also interest in debian-based cluster. "Compute cluster" i guess.
With thin ~20 clients over nfs (pxeboot).
I.e. every task will be run not more than one node and task's manager will be pbs (Portable Batch System)(staff knew that package before so we are not change it). But also i want to have total acpi support. I.e. every node should shutdown after 20 (i guess) minutes of idle and wakes up via qsub of pbs. It's good also to have possibility to shutdown and start nodes remotely. Of course, start should work via wakeup-on-lan mechanism.
Is this possible to do? And is there made solutions?