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Getting started with ParallelKnoppix, a live CD for clusters

Posted on December 2, 2006

Linux.com has an article on using ParallelKnoppix to build clusters quickly.

Quantian 0.7.9.1 Released

Posted on December 14, 2005

After a year without updates, Quantian 0.7.9.1 has been released. Quantian is one of the most complete LiveDVDs available for scientific work, including over 800 R packages and clustering support.

ParallelKnoppix 2005-11-08 screenshots

Posted on November 10, 2005

There's a new version of ParallelKnoppix out, and OSDir has the screenshots.

Thinking inside the box

Posted on August 18, 2005

Dirk Eddelbuettel blogs about slides he just released for a talk he gave on Quantian and distributed statistical computing. Probably worth reading if you run a lot of R jobs, or are interested in high performance clusters.