> I have a laptop 1,7ghz Celeron and 256mb ram. > I also have desktop 2.2 Athlon-Xp and 512mb ram. > Now I primary use this laptop for everything, > and time to time little extra power wouldn't hurt :) > And I was wondering could I make simple two > machine cluster with my laptop and workstation? > And if I could would I benefit that for example > picutere editing or making binaries? > And if both answers are yes, how would be a simpliest > way to do that?
For picture editing you will have no benefit at all, but compiling on the desktop while using the laptop is a benefit. You could ssh in your desktop and build there rpms for using on both machines. Not exactly clustering, but same as usefull as clustering ;)
I have another idea: install the openmosix patch to the kernel and run it.
Openmosix is about load balancing: it moves processes from a box to another node to have all the boxes equally loaded (speaking of of cpu power %). It uses differents algorithms to know whther it's useful to move the process or not (if you have a slow connection between nodes or few memory in a node it's better not to move anything).
If I remember well openmosix.sourceforge.net.
Olaf
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