In 06 Dec 2000 15:28:57 +0100 Turbo Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit :
Hello, It seems like I gotta have something to say being the mpich maintainer... and having had revived ~16 SparcStations into a Beowulf cluster ;) > This brings out a question I know I asked before and I can weagley remember > getting an answer to it, just not exactly what it was :). > > I also have some 486's, simple pentiums, a couple of Dec stations etc... > I even think I can get me a old VAX1 if I really want to! (but I don't, > it's _HUGE_ and _LOUD_!! :) Can ALL these machines be a part of the same > cluster? > > I just have a big aversion to throwing (working) things away, and why not > putting them to (good) use if possible? :) Yes, and this brings back attention to the rather old bug of mpich, which says it can't do multiple architectures on Linux. I don't really know if it's fixed or not, or will be fixed in the near future. At least, not in the changelogs I could find. My old and rather slightly outdated notes are at http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/sparc-cluster/clusterinstall.html/ It's very very slow when you are using 16 nodes for sure. It's a pig to start up any application. Any specifics of using mpich, I would be able to help. regards, junichi -- University: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Netfort: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dancer, a.k.a. Junichi Uekawa http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer Dept. of Knowledge Engineering and Computer Science, Doshisha University. ... Long Live Free Software, LIBERTAS OMNI VINCIT.
