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Hi all,
This is a post meant to give everyone an idea about how the cluster works how to access nodes if necissary and what kind of software makes the cluster a cluster. (as soon as we get it working)

The nodes are arranged in there own Class C network space the hosts file on each machine has the IP addresses of the other machines aliased so that users can access each of the individual nodes simply by typing its name. The names are:

godzilla #for the head node
godzilla1 #node 1
godzilla2 #node 2
godzilla2 #node 3


all of the cluster nodes have the same root account and user's home directories will be mounted via nfs.

The next step is to ger MPI or Message Passing Interface working on all of the cluster nodes so that processes can be started from the head-node and run in parallel on all 4 computers in the cluster, which has a total of seven processor to do computations on.

This hopefully gives you a thumbnail sketch of what the cluster looks like pleas post any questions below or email me with any comments or questions.

-Aaron