Big BLU -- Options

[Tim.Keller at stratus.com (Keller, Tim)]

I was thinking about what Big BLU could be used for and I had a couple of
ideas.

1. http://distcc.samba.org distcc cluster. This would allow the users todo
stuff like recompile an entire distribution for a specific architecture.
2. There is a version of povray called MPI-Povray that'll run on a Beowulf
cluster.
3. Prime Number evaluation

That's what comes to mind at the moment.

Tim.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Kinz [mailto:jkinz at kinz.org]
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 1:25 PM
To: discuss at blu.org
Subject: Re: Big BLU -- Options


On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 12:48:56PM -0400, markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:
> We could have a very loose cluster, where we basically keep our machines
> at home and they connect to some central server node. This is sub optimal
> because the network connection is slow. This would force what ever tasks
> we run on this to have a much higher ratio of CPU to data, but it would be
> the easiest.

A virtual cluster.  This may work better than we think.  Many BLU
folks are on Cable or DSL.  Not great for truly distributed processing
but we can utilize it with partitionable tasks.

> We could start small, only a few machines in someone's basement.
Yes, cooler & no weight concerns, AC? Dust? (Dpends on the basement)
Spend bucks (below) on paying them for power and AC?

> We could all chip in a few bucks and see what that, and the generosity of
> some colo, will get us.



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