[ale] beowulf clustering

[Steven A. DuChene]

You might also want to take a look at some of the opportunistic schedulers
out there that do distributed computing stuff like seti. Opportunistic
schedulers make use of idle cpu cycles like you are referring to below.
Condor comes to mind amoung others to do this sort of thing. You app has
to be a divisable type of work load like chunks of data from seti for this
to work however. Other wise you would need to code your app for cluster
specific libraries like others have referred you to in other previous
"answers"

Mosix is also another avenue to explore.


On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 09:04:05PM -0500, Christopher Bergeron wrote:
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> Have any of you guys set up a Beowulf cluster?  Is it difficult?  Can it 
> be done with off-the-shelf components?
> 
> I'm asking because I think my office is a perfect environment for it.  
> We have a "call-center" style setup, and depending on conditions, an 
> empty seat _could_ [I'm assuming; based on my current Beowulf knowledge} 
> be turned into an extra processor; thereby, adding a little horsepower 
> of the unseated machine to our intranet / network subsystem.
> 
> Keith's previous post (with the SystemImager link) planted the seed for 
> this idea, so thanks Keith!  (also - Keith: I would think you'd have 
> learned your way around Tokyo by now.  Maybe you should get out a little 
> bit and learn the layout of the town so you're not still Lost  :)
> 
> As always, much thanks guys,
> CB
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Steven A. DuChene     linux-clusters at mindspring.com
                      sduchene at mindspring.com
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