On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 10:58 AM, Alan W. Irwin <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote:
> I am looking into the practicality of using clusters containing ~5 > cheap ARM 8-core computers (such as the Banana Pi M3) to rapidly build > and test software (since even with ccache I am currently spending a > lot of my time waiting for tests to complete as I develop my > software). Such clusters would give you ~40 cores which is a lot of > computer power for ~$500 or so. But, of course, the issue with > clusters is how to use them efficiently? > I don't know anything about MPI but would distributed compilation via icecc (icecream) [1] or distcc be an option? Should work with both the Makefile and Ninja generators (replace compilers with icecc/distcc compiler wrappers). Nils [1] https://github.com/icecc/icecream
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