Big BLU -- Options

[jjohnson at sunrise-linux.com (miah)]

A requirement of distcc is that each system have the same exact
version of gcc.  If everybody is running a different distro on their
systems, this will be a problem.

-miah

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 02:30:00PM -0400, Keller, Tim wrote:
> 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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