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Contents
Building a Beowulf
Subsections
Building and Maintaining a Beowulf
Physical Infrastructure
Location, location, location
Room for your Beowulf
Power and Cooling for your Beowulf
Your Friend, Electricity
Building ``Workstation''-like Nodes
Building the Beowulf
Expensive but Simple
Cheap, Scalable, and Robust
Details of the kickstart approach
What about other distributions?
Cheapest and Hardest: Diskless Nodes
Beowulf Maintenance
Tools and Tricks
The Food Chain: Recycling your Beowulf
Beowulfs Made to Order: Turnkey Vendors
Guidelines for Turnkey Vendor Submissions
Robert G. Brown 2004-05-24
