-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 30 January 2002 00:34, G. L. `Griz' Inabnit wrote:
> Totally unrelated thought/question/request for input..... > > Over spring break, we're looking at putting together a small cluster > here > in the shop. Athlon 850, dual P3 720, Duron 1 gig, Athlon 1 gig. > Is it possible to use a cluster like this to compile the cvs stuff??? or > am I having another flashback to the 60's? (we had better drugs then!!) > :--) Yes, it is possible of course. You could use MOSIX as Jens has pointed out, however there are several software packages designed for similar tasks. What comes to my mind is: 1) Distributed computing software such as "Condor". Have a look at the beowulf mailing list archives, there was a similar discussion. http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/ 2) Load balancing queuing/batch systems such as ANTS http://unthought.net/antsd/ 3) Parallel software build systems; a parallel "make" that works on distributed memory machines. There ought to be some implementations around such as pmake that uses MPI: http://www.llnl.gov/icc/lc/DEG/pmake/pmake.html I'm CC'ing your question to debian-beowulf Thanks, - -- Eray Ozkural (exa) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo GPG public key fingerprint: 360C 852F 88B0 A745 F31B EA0F 7C07 AE16 874D 539C -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8V/U8fAeuFodNU5wRAg4nAKCDDkzcqiyZLwmaHOj/jkW06iFfdACcC7gW M+fKSwA9vHd+o5Y0ZZKts5g= =Edk3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
