Hello, I'm now running an Ultra 5 (275Mhz/ 64Mo/ 4.7Go HD) with a Debian Testing.
Our University is getting rid of about 10 U-5s. Just the CU+mouse +keyboard (they keep the screen). We're looking for some ideas to use them for fun or for the use of someone. We thought about making a cluster with them. We'll begin it home first. 10 U5s, that needs energy. So that we'll first have to pay for some extension of the power supply of our home. That's expensive. My first question is to know if it's worth to clusterise 10 U5s under Debian. It could be used to loop-compile/loop-build packages for sparc64 arch (as far as I remember, there is a xBSD doing that...). I guess the cluster wont be 10 times faster (for compiling big packages), but would you know "� peu pr�s [1]" the gain? If we do it, We'll perform some tests home and then once it is validated by our admin it could be installed into the university datacenter, wich has enough bandwidth.... [1] Sorry, I dont know the translation of that expression. -- Get a fully managed dedicated server for �200/month ($257/month) No time limit for taking care of your server. You keep the "root" acces if you want. Billing periods are 3 months. See the conditions at http://aspo.rktmb.org/activities/managed_servers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
