Hi Michael,

Thanx for your response! You are correct, it is very difficult for my students to write code for an openMOSIX environment (as a 2-4 week final programming project after a year of learning java). However, the MPI approach looks promissing now that there's some java interfaces for MPI and PVM. BTW, do you include PVM on your ISO? PVM also looks very teachable.

Regarding jClusters, you may want to take a look at:

http://www.buyya.com
http://www.ipd.uka.de/JavaParty
http://freshmeat.net/projects/jcluster
http://www.srg.csis.hku.hk/homepage/srg/jessica.htm
http://www.npac.syr.edu/projects/pcrc/mpiJava
http://www.hpjava.org/
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~ajf2j/jpvm.html

Oh, I did see your new website and I was referring to your latest version when I wrote the post above - that would be version 2005.0110, right?

However, I'm still a little vague on some points. There was no such thing as clusters when I was in college in the 70s! So I'm teaching myself all this stuff from scratch right now. I have a lot of catching up to do. This whole clustering field sounds so useful and interesting, I feel that I've only just scratched the surface!

Anyway, I'm not clear on whether this is a Beowulf cluster you have implemented and what that means to me and my programming students! Also, would there be any problem in my using knoppix-installer to make a hdd installed cluster. I would like a little more permanent solution than a CD cluster. Also, I cannot get PXE to work in my lab. This is how I got around the PXE problem for openMOSIX using clusterKNOPPIX or QUANTIAN....

TIA,
AJG