The LiveCD List. Guest Operating System Installation Guide. Condor: Building a Linux cluster on a budget. 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 Core 3 will be our base distribution, since it's freely available and well supported by both DRBL and Condor.
DRBL on its own can create a set of machines that could be used as thin clients in, say, a classroom setting. The end product is very stable. DRBL installation In this example we will assume that our server has three network interfaces: eth0, to connect to the outside world, and eth1 and eth2 to connect to the client machines. DRBL is available as a small RPM package. /opt/drbl/setup/drblsrv -i /opt/drbl/setup/drblpush -i This second Perl script is the workhorse of the system. . # . v1.0 - The personal blog of PaulpBaker! Linux Cluster HOWTO.