On 7/11/05, Julian Zottl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey Brian, > I guess you are against the idea of just adding more of your present boxes to > the network to increase the CPU power? I does tie you to a old architecture > though :( > > Two solutions come to mind. First, blade servers with ClusterKnoppix > installed. It's a great little distro that will enable you to do what you > want. Second (and probably better), XGrid. About it from the OS level: > http://www.apple.com/support/macosxserver/xgrid/ You could buy a nice rack > (which they sell already done) of Xserve's, a couple of Xserve RAID's and be > done. But it here: http://www.apple.com/science/awc/awcproposal/ You could > even replace all of your workstations with Mac's and put them in the cluster > for more computational power. See this PDF > http://nitf.newark.rutgers.edu/dec-04/XGrid.ppt > > Hope that helps :)
Very cool stuff but once again if you go Apple you are tying yourself to their proprietary products. And what happens in a year when they are rolling with x86 based products? Are they going to migrate all these solutions to Intel chips and architecture? Is everyone who shelled out $$$ for the Xserve stuff screwed? If you haven't guessed this is for a military application. For once I have a chance to toss a little input in there and maybe steer them away from doing the stupid crap they always have - paying a contractor millions to take years to develop a system that by the time it is ready is already outdated and doesn't match customer needs anymore. A question about using blade servers/clustering - does each one need to have its own OS and software install? Or is it actually possible to do what I was thinking and simply have the processors and RAM on the blades all being used by one OS? -- Brian
