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Even if the individual machines were distributed physically, it seems reasonable to ask that each system be running the same OS version. It could be as simple as a boot CD (since netbooting over a consumer broadband connection would be SLOOOOW). If you can get a complete distro on a single CD (Knoppix), it should be relatively easy to do the same for our cluster's OS which will have significantly less software. Drew miah wrote: > 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. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Drew Taylor * Web development & consulting Email: drew at drewtaylor.com * Site implementation & hosting Web : www.drewtaylor.com * perl/mod_perl/DBI/mysql/postgres ----------------------------------------------------------------
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