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I know its easy to do, I just sense a 'we should run x not y' issue approaching =) -miah On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 03:22:34PM -0400, Drew Taylor wrote: > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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