unless you've got an application, that will fit into a beowolf frame
work, then, unless your providing tcp/ip services which require fail
over and/or load balancing then your going to have code it yourself,
There a few cluster research projects I've seen, which can distribute
unix processes to the least busy node, but that's no good if your
'application' runs as one process with mutliple threads.... :-(.
What do you need to do with this cluster, or is it just for fun?
I presume anyone can use this 48 node clusters, via the internet over
ssh? no? ah, only spotty face students have access...shame.... I had
some 128bit keys to break.. ;-)...
Have you checked the beowolf howto? I remember that being 'fun'
Laters,
Lee
On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 16:33, Carl Ebrey wrote:
> On 8 Jul 2002, Lee wrote:
>
> > 48 node cluster....hmm... who actually assembly this?
> >
> > was in house 'techs'
> >
> > or outside help?
> >
> > Use debian/suse/mandrake....redhats...sucks (biscuits).
>
> Point 1 of information gathered during cluster information grabbing
> session:
>
> User a decent distro (like I was going to use anything other than Debian
> anyway!) :)
>
> Next question: Does anyone know of a source of programs that have been
> written for clusters? GCC would be a good start ;) Also, the Complete
> Idiots Guide to Building a Beowulf Cluster would be handy ;)
>
> Carl
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