On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:53:49 -0800 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Sounds pretty rad. Has anyone experimented with a bunch of old | clunkers in a cluster?
Yes. Theres an excellent Gentoo guide on that:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openmosix-howto.xml http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/diskless-howto.xml
And this is the reason why it stayed as that an experiment, besides the space it occupied.Yes. It'll cost you less buying a second hand big SMP box or a reasonably recent not so big SMP box because of the insane power usage of old clunkers in a cluster.
But this one looks awesome! The "Mini-Cluster" http://mini-itx.com/projects/cluster/
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At present, the idle power consumption is about 140 Watts (for 12 nodes) with peaks estimated at around 200 Watts. The machine runs cool and quiet. The controlling node has 256 MB RAM , and an 160 GB ATA 133 IDE hard disk drive. The computational nodes have 256 MB RAM, each and boot from 340 MB IBM microdrives by means of compact flash to IDE adapters. The computational nodes mount /usr on the controlling node via NFS, for storage and to allow for a very simple configuration. No official benchmarks have been run, but for simple computational tasks the mini cluster appears to be faster than four 2.4 GHz pentium 4 mcahines used in parallel, at a fraction of the cost and power use.
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