Hello,
Anyone have thoughts on our experiment to build a
simple 'Beowulf Cluster' under a Windows environment ? Presently we have four older Dell single core machines, nearly identical, that would fit well into this test. I have been reviewing the book from MIT entitled "Beowulf Cluster Computing
with Linux" published in 2003 but that uses Ubuntu as the basis for the cluster.
I have also been looking at articles from the Ubuntu wiki entitled: "Ubuntu Kerrighed Cluster Guide" at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EasyUbuntuClustering/UbuntuKerrighedClusterGuide with a step by step guide on how to set up a Kerrighed Cluster.
In 2006, Microsoft introduced Windows Compute Cluster Server however this appears to be for high-performance computing clusters and I think was meant to replace Linux. It's probably not applicable to this project. Windows CCS is also fairly expensive
for just an experiment.
I am learning my way through this experimental project and therefore am starting with no knowledge on the subject.
Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Dan