Beowulf works best with applications that are designed for parallel computation.
Programs designed to not share address and memory space among it's various processes.
>From the seti site:
"Are there versions of SETI@home for parallel systems such as Beowulf or
multiprocessors?
No. You can parallelize SETI@home by running multiple instances of it, either on a
multiprocessor or on the nodes of a cluster. Just make sure that each instance runs
in a different directory. "
IMHO, seti would probably perform better on each workstation, individually. Or to say
it another way, there probably won't be any gain from putting seti on a beowulf
cluster. Your assocate there should have as many computers as he can chunking away,
individually. The faster the processor, the faster it will complete a block. (I'm
running it on one system, a thunderbird 1.333ghz. It takes about 8 hours for one
block.)
Here's a little article discussing an intro to beowulf systems, and home-brewed super
computers.
http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/beowulf/tutorial/intro.html
Cory
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 09:56:35AM -0700, Bob Crandell wrote:
> 2 questions:
>
> 1) Is anyone running Seti on Linux?
>
> 2) Will it take advantage of Beowulf?
>
> Explanation:
> One of our clients is competing with one of his friends on how many packets he can
>process. I mentioned the possibility of using some of their old machines as a
>Beowulf cluster. He is all kinds of excited about it.
> If this is something we can do, he would supply 3 computers to start. He
>understands that this is all volunteer and might take awhile to finish and deliver.
>If we time it right, it could be running on demo day. If this works as advertised,
>he will come up with more computers.
>
> The 3 computers he will start with are HP Brios P 120 with 64 + megs of RAM and 2
>GIG hard drive. I will make sure they have 10/100 NICs. He will connect them with a
>10/100 switch.
>
> Any interest?
>
>
> Bob Crandell
> ComSource Associates, Inc.
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