Talk:HOWTO Configure Gentoo Linux for Clustering
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Some comments about the points this document should or shouldn't address:
1. Explain the existing API's for high performance computing, such as OpenMP (for shared memory machines) and MPI (mainly for passing messages over network to machines with their own memory), their pros and cons.
- This is the subject of many different classes on parallel computing/HPC. I doubt it could be summarised in a single wiki page, especially since many techniques are cited. At best, we could start a collection of links to tutorials.
2. Some introduction of hardware selection.
- A simple search on the beowulf mailing list will demonstrate how this is "opening a can of worms". I recommend we point towards http://www.beowulf.org/ and RGB's homepage and his book in progress
3. Essential software packages for building such a cluster.
- Tentatively doing so in my wiki...
4. How to compile and run parallelized programs.
- We could indeed add some examples/tests or (links to) that would validate the installation.
-Kyron 14:16, 10 February 2006 (GMT)
What about including a link to OpenMosix? -- Texnofobix 16:20, 2 March 2006 (GMT)
