OK, I just got 12 compute nodes up and running fine! I found that I had to execute "lamboot" on the master node before running kernel_example.m if I set more than 0 compute nodes in octave. Is the master node used for computing too, so all 26 cores are being used, or only 24?
I see you have 4 nodes with 32 cores? Wow, are these 64bit cores? How fast are they? How does LinPack rate your new cluster? What was your old cluster spec?
TIA,
AJG