Linux.com: Condor: Building a Linux Cluster on a Budget

Written By
BG
Bruno Gonçalves
Nov 17, 2005

“So you need a lot of computing power but don’t want to spend
tens of thousands of dollars on a commercial cluster? Or maybe you
just have a lot of machines sitting idle that you would like to put
to good use? You can build a powerful and scalable Linux cluster
using only free software and off-the-shelf components. Here’s
how.

“To build our cluster we are going to use three pieces of
software:

  • “Fedora Code 3
  • “DRBL (Diskless Remote Boot on Linux)
  • “Condor…”

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BG

Bruno Gonçalves

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