I am quite a noobie at servers, but I love computers. I have about 12 computers in my basement now and am looking for a way to hook them up to function as a single computer. Therefore I would have something like a 12ghz computer with 2 gigs of ram. It would be like a 12 in 1. What kind of software application should I use for Linux? I have searched for a windows solution and was unsucessful. Which linux os?
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Cluster Server sharing cpu and ram power help? 1
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Depends on the application really... Remember that clustering isn't really like having "12 computers in one" It's only good at embarssingly parrallel tasks. If you are trying to speed XWindows up, or your trying to speed up Quake -- then Clusters aren't the way to go.
Things you might be intrested in for clustering are:
the Rocks Distro
openMosix
MPI libraries
NetCDF libraries and utilities
wolfWare (written by RGB)
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Things you might be intrested in for clustering are:
the Rocks Distro
openMosix
MPI libraries
NetCDF libraries and utilities
wolfWare (written by RGB)
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ericbrunson
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As far as I can tell from the docs openmosix only does process migration, so unless you had a decoder that could run in a distributed fashion like a rendering farm you'd get very nominal speedups.
Yours is a very naive question from a cluster computing perspective. I think you're under a misconception of what a cluster is capable of. You can't take a bunch of servers and make them just like one big computer. Even dedicated systems like a Connection Machine, a Cray or a Blue-Gene have to have their code specially written to take advantage of the distrubuted nature of their processing power.
Setting up an OpenMosix cluster would certainly give you a better understanding of what cluster computing is, I suggest you try it out.
Yours is a very naive question from a cluster computing perspective. I think you're under a misconception of what a cluster is capable of. You can't take a bunch of servers and make them just like one big computer. Even dedicated systems like a Connection Machine, a Cray or a Blue-Gene have to have their code specially written to take advantage of the distrubuted nature of their processing power.
Setting up an OpenMosix cluster would certainly give you a better understanding of what cluster computing is, I suggest you try it out.
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