<div dir="ltr">so it wouldn't shorten the compile time of the packages? I would think it would because you are using the number of processors in your cluster as opposed to the number of processors in a computer.</div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br clear="all"><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 8:19 AM, George Toft <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:george@georgetoft.com" target="_blank">george@georgetoft.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>I would use whatever distribution
offers the best community forum (support). I like Red Hat /
Fedora (no distro war!!!) because so many people use it, someone
has usually solved my problem and I just need to google for it.<br>
<br>
In my Mosix cluster, I only had to recompile the kernels and rpm
install them on the other systems (plus NFS setup, IIRC). I think
Linux from scratch would make your build time much much longer.<br>
<pre cols="72">Regards,
George Toft
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On 3/21/2014 6:36 AM, Michael Havens wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">would using it to compile linux from scratch be a
good use for it?</div>
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<div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
<br>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 2:23 AM, eric
oyen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eric.oyen@gmail.com" target="_blank">eric.oyen@gmail.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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um…. Yeah! I would certainly call that a big "OOOOOOOOOPS!".
Still, we have far better code today than 12 years ago.<br>
<span><font color="#888888"><br>
-eric<br>
</font></span>
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On Mar 21, 2014, at 12:04 AM, George Toft wrote:<br>
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> I built a mosix cluster about 12 years ago - much
kernel re-compiling - and then I found out my workload
was single-threaded - oops :)<br>
><br>
> Regards,<br>
><br>
> George Toft<br>
><br>
> On 3/20/2014 12:59 PM, Michael Havens wrote:<br>
>> >>well if you Google beowulf cluster you
will find the first one i had learned about. but there
are a number of options out there.<br>
>><br>
>> the main thing is once you have it set up you
need to figure out what you will do with it. and that is
where it gets interesting because you then usually have
to build and design a workload for it.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:<br>
>><br>
>><br>
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