These instructions here are to help to install some interesting demos for Beowulf for demo of bio-life-sciences applications.. or something close to it. hopefully this would be useful to someone who wants to show some molecular stuff and don’t know what to show…. Get the required software at their respective homepages.
Apple’s Xgrid system comes delivered with OSX and is a simple way of getting into Distributed Computing. Its simplicity allows users to be able to quickly turn on the Grid system and quickly get to submit jobs. However, a layer of complexity can exist if more is required. Such as greater security, advance job tracing, as well MPI integration using OpenMPI.
Xgrid is currently in its first revision.
Note: OSX Server is required to be able to run the Xgrid controller daemon. However, it is also possible to run it on a OSX Client as the controller binaries are also available there. That said, i have yet to find out how to configure the controller daemon on a OSX Client easily.
Here contains some notes that i have compiled with respect to setting up or using OpenPBS.
Here are some information that i have on LSF.