[scilab-Users] About clustering

[Mathieu Dubois]

Tadadjeu Sokeng Ifriky wrote:
> Greetings.
> I am to build a cluster to do a monte carlo simulation.
> The code will be in scilab.
> what are the hardware requirements for such a cluster?
> Do each server require a hard drive as in most MATLAB clusters?
> Thanks.
> Regards
> I T S
Hello,

I don't know if it is the place to talk about that but you should take a 
look at ROCKS (http://www.rocksclusters.org/wordpress/) or OSCAR 
(http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar). Those are a set of 
tools on top of a standard linux distribution (CentOS for ROCKS, RedHat 
or several others for OSCAR) to ease cluster installation & management 
(adding users, adding software, adding nodes, etc...). Usually they 
require a hard drive on each node.

OSCAR seems a bit more flexible but the new  version is not stable 
enough. ROCKS works fine (I use it but I have never tried Scilab).

Scialb has some PVM facilities built-in. I know that OSCAR sets up a PVM 
server on the cluster.

For the hardware side I  think that any reasonably modern computer can 
run Scilab fast enough...

Hope that helps,
Mathieu