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12-15-2016, 04:40 PM
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Light Weight Linux Distro for High Performance Clusters
I've been searching around online trying to find a good lightweight linux distro that I can use to create a high performance cluster. I've considered using DSL but I haven't looked into it's capabilities in this arena. I was wondering if any of you have recommendations for something that would require minimal resources and allow for a clustered environment.
I don't even care if it has a GUI. Command line is fine with me.
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12-16-2016, 09:51 AM
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Nobody can tell you because you don't tell us what you want to achieve.
"Clustering" is an extremely vague term:
High Availability Clustering
Load Balancing Clustering
Compute Clustering
Database Clustering for resilience (kinda ties in with both HA and LB)
Distributed Storage/Processing (à la hadoop)
The list goes on.....
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12-16-2016, 09:52 AM
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Computation Cluster.
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12-16-2016, 09:52 AM
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Oh, or even the current industry buzz-word "Cloud" using clusters of hardware and something like OpenStack.
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12-16-2016, 10:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Nauntilus
Computation Cluster.
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Ok, so your next step is check to see if the application you want to run supports clustering and if so, what the application recommends.
When it comes to compute clusters the choice of platform is very much driven by what the application will support. |
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12-16-2016, 10:22 AM
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I'm writing my own application to run on the cluster. So yes it will support clustering whichever setup I use. I just have to have a cluster setup first.
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12-16-2016, 10:23 AM
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However I am specifically looking to maximize my usage of the available processor and memory, which is why I'm looking for a lightweight distro.
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12-16-2016, 08:15 PM
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I guess you could build your kernel and use busybox on it. More depends on what all you need on to support your cluster and the application.
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12-17-2016, 11:22 AM
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12-18-2016, 12:53 PM
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Originally Posted by DavidMcCann
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Thank you David. One of these seems like it will work. |
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12-18-2016, 01:28 PM
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netinst is my opinion, so-many built on it... why not yours?  |
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