Building a cluster

[Eric Oyen]

Well,
About all you need is the open_cl package, a small number of recent vintage supported GPU cards, small HDD’s (enough for the OS and some swap space) as much ram as you can stuff in each machine and a good network card and switch combo. The reason for the GPU’s? Bitcoin mining, password cracking/recovery and any other project that supports using multiple gpu cards. If your machines aren’t up to the task, start with a PXE booted cluster of RaspberryPi units (start with an odd number like 3 (one as the master control unit). I had plans to do this myself, but my fixed income here just isn’t up to the task of doing more than paying for the basic bills.

-Eric
From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Open Cluster Development and research Dept.


> On Apr 16, 2019, at 7:36 PM, Harold Hartley <wheelie207 at ownmail.net> wrote:
> 
> I’m looking at building a cluster and I know there are different types. I haven’t fully decided on what I would be using it for.
> Well, I have 4 computers about 3 or 4 years old and all have i5 processing with 8 gigs ram in each. I am not sure what size hard drives I want in them. I am looking at doing animations making my own small video movie like and then post on my blog. Even thought of other uses as well.
> Would anyone have an idea what type of cluster I should go with. Thanks
> 
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