Re: packages?

No, there's no package list except for the one I posted in this thread. This is because Pelican is designed to be easily customizable by adding package names to the make_pelican script. The released version is intentionally minimalistic, since it is expected that users will add the packages that they need. What's on the released version is a barebones setup that gets a cluster running, plus some stuff that I am biased towards.

If your hardware is all 64 bit, then I recommend the 64 bit version. That's what I run, so it has more testing from me. To use both cores on each of 25 machines, just do mpirun -np 50 <etc> and specify that all 25 machines are to be used (method differs according to which MPI implementation you use). About using Java, I don't know much, perhaps someone with experience using Java and Pelican can help. I know that such people are out there...

Cheers, M.