From chemistry-request@server.ccl.net Tue Feb 29 13:17:14 2000 Received: from mailsrv.engr.uconn.edu (mailsrv.engr.uconn.edu [137.99.21.179]) by server.ccl.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA28326 for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 13:17:13 -0500 Received: from engr.uconn.edu (IDENT:bhupen@camd [137.99.9.39]) by mailsrv.engr.uconn.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA03884 for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 13:19:19 -0500 (EST) Sender: bhupen@engr.uconn.edu Message-ID: <38BBEBBD.93CEBE07@engr.uconn.edu> Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:54:37 -0500 From: Bhupendra Wakankar Organization: University of Connecticut X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5-15smp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: CCL_posting Subject: NT parallel cluster Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear CCLers, Hi. We have 6 computers in our lab (4 running on WINNT and 2 on RedHat 6.0). I use the Linux PC's for my computations while the 4 NT PC's stay relatively idle. All these PC's are fairly powerful (> 400MHz multiprocessor Pentiums) and thus have untapped number crunching power. I am wondering if it is possible to build a parallel cluster using these 4 NT PC's (and better still, using all 6 PC's). Almost all network of PC clusters that I read about on the web run under Linux. Is there any particular reason for not choosing NT (lack of parallel programs perhaps ?). I would also like to know if there are any DFT programs (parallel/single processor, free/commercial) running on Windows NT? Thanks in advance, Regards, Bhupendra