beowulf cluster

[Michael Havens]

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.

:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 8:19 AM, George Toft <george at georgetoft.com> wrote:

>  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.
>
> 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.
>
> Regards,
>
> George Toft
>
> On 3/21/2014 6:36 AM, Michael Havens wrote:
>
> would using it to compile linux from scratch be a good use for it?
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 2:23 AM, eric oyen <eric.oyen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> um.... Yeah! I would certainly call that a big "OOOOOOOOOPS!". Still, we
>> have far better code today than 12 years ago.
>>
>> -eric
>>
>> On Mar 21, 2014, at 12:04 AM, George Toft wrote:
>>
>> > I built a mosix cluster about 12 years ago - much kernel re-compiling -
>> and then I found out my workload was single-threaded - oops :)
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > George Toft
>> >
>> > On 3/20/2014 12:59 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>> >> >>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.
>> >>
>> >> 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.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>> >>
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