From owner-chemistry@ccl.net Sat Mar 18 11:54:00 2006 From: "Eugen Leitl eugen|-|leitl.org" To: CCL Subject: CCL:G: [Beowulf] G03 in Linux cluster Message-Id: <-31236-060318070514-2-wi47wHlGVshWe6S2xH7wtg[]server.ccl.net> X-Original-From: Eugen Leitl Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 09:33:34 +0100 Sent to CCL by: Eugen Leitl [eugen * leitl.org] ----- Forwarded message from Jess Cannata ----- >From: Jess Cannata Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:08:32 -0500 Cc: Beowulf||beowulf.org Subject: Re: [Beowulf] [owner-chemistry||ccl.net: CCL:G: parallel G03 in Linux cluster] User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Eugen Leitl wrote: >Hello Everybody, > >I am planning to buy sixteen AMD64 Athlon dual core machines (with >Linux) for running G03 in parallel. They will be connected by ethernet. >I never have any experience in running gaussian with Linux cluster. So >my questions are the following: > >1. Can G03 be run parallel in the above configuration? >2. Do you need to have Linda for running parallel in the above >configuration? > > You need Linda to run G03 in parallel. >3. Do you recommend any other processor? > > We run G03 on both Xeon and Opteron Beowulf Clusters and are very pleased with the Opterons. >4. Which brand of Linux is good for running G03 parallel? > > This depends on whether you have the binary or source code version. If you use the binaries, you should follow Gaussian's recommendations. We run G03 (64-bit) on SuSE 9.0 and RedHat AS 4 without any problems. >5. Pals sharer your experience with running G03 parallel in Linux >cluster (like tricks, problems, failure etc). > > Good luck! G03 can be finicky. Jess >Thanks in advance >Debasis > > > _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf||beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl leitl http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [CCL Admin removed application/* MIME attachment]