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igneous is complete

At the end of last week the 32-bit cluster, igneous, was completed. Initially my supervisor setup the 10-12 node cluster using Rocks 3.1.0 .. but after mis-trials of the Linpack benchmarking software they decided to try the beta version 3.2.0 .. unfortunately this could not successfully setup the nodes, so the system once again fell back to version 3.1.0

Hardware Specs:
At the moment there is 10 nodes (which will be expanded to 12 i believe)
Each node is configured with a PIII 866MHz Processor, with 256MB's of RAM, 100Mbps NIC, and a 20GB IDE HDD.
On top of this is the head-node which is configured with a PIII 866MHz Processor, 512MB of RAM, 100Mbps, and a 33GB SCSI HDD.

Each node is housed in a stock desktop case, which have been stacked on a table in the corner of a lab.

The LAN between the nodes and the head-node is a via a Bay Networks 10/100 Managed Switch.

The distribution in more detail is the Rocks cluster distribution, version 3.1.0