On 10 December 2010 11:52, Narendra Sisodiya <[email protected]> wrote: > Lets imagine I have 10 PC/Desktop in a Lab. > How I can install/setup something so that the resultant virtualised system > What solution are available in Linux to create such mini-supercomputer > Any experience ??
We made a linux cluster out of decrepit machines when i was in ANDC (a delhi university college). If your machines are newer than what we had, it would be quite easy to set up something using MPI or Hadoop. we used a project called ParallelKnoppix (now called PelicanHPC). Of course, you will have to program again to take advantage of the cluster. > behave like a single system with 10 times CPU power It won't work out exactly like that, because of issues like Ahmdal's law (if your program has some sequential part and some parallel part, the speed increase is limited by the sequential part) and communications overhead, but for some problems, you can get very good increases. ~ Sudhang -- -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
