On Mon, May 04, 1998 at 06:42:44PM -0400, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question about organising Debian Linux cluster for small physics > experiment. Half a year ago we bought a PC and I am running Debian 2.0 on > it. > My colleagues who usually work on X-terminals noticed certain advantages of > PC compared to X-terminal and basically the idea is instead of buying extra 5 > X-terminals to buy 5 PC. I think I understand how to maintain > single-computer > system, but I have very little experience with clusters. > > So far they want PC just to be an X-terminal, but I beleive they will be > interested in it's computing power very soon. > > Questions: > > 1. What is better: one powerfull central computer surrounded by many little > ones? OR democratic society of equal computers? > > 2. Is it easy to "clone" debian systems? How should one maintain it? > > 3. What are the recommendations about hardware specific to clusters would you > make? > > 4. Any useful resources on this matter? (Basically how to approach the > problem). > > Thanks you, > Sasha. >
snip I am fairly new at Linux but I ran across this on the net and saved the URL for later reference. It is the Beowulf project that connects many small Linux PCs into a parallel computing environment. http://cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov/beowulf/ John C. Ellingboe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]