http://www.paleoterra.com/taxonomy/term/9/0 en http://www.paleoterra.com/2008/05/3/climate-model-mac-project-4-installing-rocks <p><a href="http://www.rocksclusters.org/">ROCKS</a> is an NSF (National Science Foundation) supported project to develop and maintain cluster environments so they provide cluster installs for a wide variety of platforms. It contains the usual things, like PBS, ganglia, and many others. </p> <p>To install, the first thing was to add a new SATA drive to the machine. I had a 250 gig lying around so I added it to bay 2 on the mac.</p> <p><a href="http://www.paleoterra.com/2008/05/3/climate-model-mac-project-4-installing-rocks" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://www.paleoterra.com/2008/05/3/climate-model-mac-project-4-installing-rocks#comments linux Macintosh PGI sata Wed, 14 May 2008 15:12:00 +0000 tmoore 18 at http://www.paleoterra.com http://www.paleoterra.com/2008/05/3/climate-model-mac-project-1 <p>Computer clusters can be expensive to buy and expensive to maintain. My current linux cluster has 18 CPUs, and takes up about 13U of rack space in a colocation facility, and uses 17-18 amps of power.</p> <p><a href="http://www.paleoterra.com/2008/05/3/climate-model-mac-project-1" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://www.paleoterra.com/2008/05/3/climate-model-mac-project-1#comments climate modeling FOAM hardware linux Macintosh Wed, 14 May 2008 14:55:00 +0000 tmoore 15 at http://www.paleoterra.com