Distributed processing?

[jokersmild]

I read an article that mentioned a weather program that was run on 48 486's using linux to distribute packets for processing to each computer.

I think that this could be a neat project. Not that I have huge numbers to crunch. Just something fun to do.

Has anybody out there ever done anything like that?

 

[pansophic]

You may want to look into a Beowolf cluster, although it may be beyond what you are attempting to do.


pansophic

 

[jrjuiliano]

Another cool little tool is DISTCC, which is used mainly with Gentoo, but I'm sure that you could get it to work with any Linux system. It basically "shares" the task of compiling programs from source and, in most cases, dramitically speeds up compile times.

Of course, if you're not compiling from source, then it's kinda useless...

http://distcc.samba.org/

J.R.

 

[jokersmild]

Good info.

Thanks