On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 10:10, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: > At 13.13 22/06/2003, you wrote: > > > 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, If I'm understanding you right then, OpenMosix is a kind of Grid Computing for Linux? James > > Olaf > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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