[Discuss] Education - becoming a Cluster Administrator

[bene at klatsch.org (Ben Eisenbraun)]

Hi Stephen,

> The direction is to build a small test cluster.There is room in the
> machine to add test equipment and access to ip address.  The operating
> system of the cluster will be Ubuntu 10.04 - and to install SGE to
> manage jobs. The question is obtaining the hardware .. maybe from
> Ebay. I looks like I would pay for it or maybe find another more cost
> effective way to train. That is the issue. If it come down to it I am
> willing to invest in my training.

There was a recent thread on the BBLisa mailing list about Windows
training, and the most common suggestion was to avoid buying hardware
for testing and training and instead just set up Amazon EC2 instances
for anything you need.

I think that set up makes sense in your situation as well.

-ben

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