Hello! I am a retired chemist and a user and abuser of computers [i.e. for fun I do computational chemistry, and keep a dual-dual 4-processor AMD box running RHEL4 cranking 24/7. I have an additional box that is a dual-core Xeon that I would like to cluster with the AMD box. I run only _extremely _ coarse grained parallel codes, and identical executables running on any linux box... I run a fitting procedure that runs a particular executable on hundreds of examples, one at a time, collects results, adjusts parameters, and does it all again, over and over, till finished. There is no communication between nodes. Each node does a complete, seperate discreet task Node0 knows when a pass through the data has been completed, adjust parameters, and farms out jobs, over and over] .. but I'm not much of a systems person.. I have this running OK on the SMP box... just need to know how to farm out some of the work to the Xeon box. There is very little data moved around so standard old ethernet through my Verizon router should be fine. [4 machines are cabled in, plus a wireless machine.]
I need a bit of help and advice. Is there someone available for helping me get this going? Many thanks! John McKelvey
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