On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote:
Sean P. Mason wrote:
I was wondering. . . I have a bunch of old machines, and I was wondering
if it was possible to link them all together to act as a single machine
under Linux. I can't seem to find any information elsewhere thus far.
I have six
Sean P. Mason wrote:
I was wondering. . . I have a bunch of old machines, and I was wondering
if it was possible to link them all together to act as a single machine
under Linux. I can't seem to find any information elsewhere thus far.
I have six 386 Sx-16s with a meg of RAM and 40 megs of
GNU/Linux wont really make several machines act as one. Most of the
clustering capabilities come from the software, which is able to divide
it's work up and distribute it over several machines. This is specialized
(mostly scientific) software that is not going to speed up your
(for
Sean P. Mason wrote:
GNU/Linux wont really make several machines act as one. Most of the
clustering capabilities come from the software, which is able to divide
it's work up and distribute it over several machines. This is specialized
(mostly scientific) software that is not going to
Are there any well known programs out there that will let me run processes
distributed, or will I have to do a whole load of digging? =)
I think I might just try that out, if I can manage to find the right
software for it.
--- Sean Mason
Sean P. Mason wrote:
Are there any well known programs out there that will let me run processes
distributed, or will I have to do a whole load of digging? =)
If you want to run programs on separate machines and display them on
just one, then telnet and X work just fine.
But if you want the
I though that beowulf project, clustering PCs, and most of the effort
was about such a process management. http://cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov/beowulf/
Daegyu
On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 10:40:38PM -0500, Mitch Blevins wrote:
Sean P. Mason wrote:
Are there any well known programs out there that
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote:
Sean P. Mason wrote:
I was wondering. . . I have a bunch of old machines, and I was wondering
if it was possible to link them all together to act as a single machine
under Linux. I can't seem to find any information elsewhere thus far.
I have six
I've taken a look at this Beowulf thing (quite new to me) and it seems a
bit. . . cryptic. It doesn't really say anything that will help me out on
the page. Does anyone out there use or know a lot about Beowulf? If
someone does, please drop me mail so we can chat a bit =)
Thanks!
--- Sean
I've been looking around the Beowulf sites for several days now. If you
follow ALL the links, you will eventually find the useful info. Basically,
Beowulf is used to enable several Linux boxes to behave as one
super-computer. That's the good news. The bad news is, this is only useful
if you are
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