[Beowulf] Alpha beowulf: True64 or Linux?  Mark Hahn hahn at
mcmaster.ca Wed Sep 26 00:01:44 PDT 2007  > I've heard of people
making clusters out of Alphas running Linux before -  > can't
remember where, but I did see someone had done it.  my
organization did (and does, actually).  we had several clusters
of  ES40's, most running linux.  one (which I admined) ran
tru64. we've since coalesced all the ES40's into one cluster,
which we still run (under linux).  tru64 is about what you'd
expect: obsolete in many ways compared to fast-moving linux.
but at the time, advfs was pretty nice in being able  to add
storage pools together vaguely like zfs.  > So I'd be tempted to
say don't bother with an Alphaserver cluster at all any  > more,
but if you are going to have one, it can be made to work with
either  > OS.  our ES40's (4G, 4cpus, elan3) still get used
reasonably well, and are fairly stable.  but in the academic
environment, we don't pay for space or power, so they're pretty
close to zero cost.  if we thought