On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Drew from Zhrodague < [email protected]> wrote:
> I'm not at all familiar with Linux clustering, just the usual >>> stand-alone desktop / server. Any ideas, pointers, etc. appreciated. >>> >> >> First part of any cluster is deciding what application you are going to >> run on it. That will determine how you need to present the hardware to it. >> >> If your friend just wants to consolidate the compute power and then do >> virtualized machines on top, that is different than say running some heavy >> analytically software like protein folding. >> > > This is right - you can't really gang a bunch of machines together > to act like one Desktop Linux computer. What you can do, is either spread > the applications across machines, or break up the data to be processed into > chunks for processing. If you just wanna see how many MIPS you can put out > and watch the blinkenlights, that's fun too. > > That's a big topic, and highly dependent upon what kind of stuff > you're doing. > > For the blinkenlights, there are projects like Folding@Home and > distributed.net are fun - I've been contributing to distributed.net for > 14 years: http://stats.distributed.net/**participant/psummary.php?** > project_id=27&id=141698<http://stats.distributed.net/participant/psummary.php?project_id=27&id=141698> > > I work on Internet applications, and frequently I see the > end-users' clicks simply go into a queue, which is handled by a set of > machines which process items from the queue. With modern cloud computing > and some handy open-source projects, this is relatively easy to do. > > Uh, I have a ton of wifi/geodata that needs processing if you've > got some idle computing. > > -- > > Drew from Zhrodague > lolcat divinator > [email protected] I still don't have a clear idea of exactly what he is wanting to do, just a more general idea. He has a few TB worth of files on multiple Windows network shares. He wants to find duplicates, and get the files more organized (i.e. music files together, pictures files together, videos files together, etc.) Paul -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
