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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've been asked to assist a friend doing medical
research in setting up a small cluster to run gromacs... </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm trying to set him up something fairly easy to
use, and especially easy to add new nodes to over time and have recently
stumbled upon knoppix and Clusterknoppix which appear to have a really nice
openmosix install and support for diskless clients with no extra
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I guess my question is two fold at this
point</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>a) will gromacs benefit from an
openmosix environment (some old messages in the list archives from a year
ago seem to say no, but again that was a year ago)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>b) if not, is there a nice alternative in
another free (as in beer) package that would fit along these lines?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have absolutely no problem digging in up to
my armpits, but I'm curious if I'm starting off on the right or wrong foot, and
a shove in the right direction wouldn't hurt.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've got a sysadmin background (bsd mostly, but
some linux) and am not the least bit scared to get in under the hood.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks for any suggestions... they are
extrememly appreciated.</FONT></DIV>
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