Thanks Ron, those sites look good; or should I say intimidating? -Matt
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ronald Willis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 4:42 AM Subject: RE: [luau] Two computers working as one > Hey Matt, > > Linux does distributed computing very easily. Imagine a classroom of > computer sitting idle all night long. Or complete coporation of PC's doing > nothing for at least 8 hours a day. Now imagine using all of those idle > BogoMips to function as a rendering farm, or to crunch numbers like Seti. > > Look up Beowulf http://www.beowulf.org/beowulf/vendors/. > RedHat has a good resource for Linux clusters. > Books on Amazon, Linux Clusters... > Of course the web will keep you busy too. > > > Penguin Computing Clustering FAQs > > 1) What is a High Performance Cluster (HPC)? > A High Performance Cluster is a generic term for a group of computers > connected to work on a specific, computationally intensive problem. Beowulf > is a type of HPC. HPC is also an acronym for "High Performance Computing," a > larger category that subsumes High Performance Clusters. > > More...> > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Matthew John > > Darnell > > Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 6:20 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [luau] Two computers working as one > > > > > > Aloha, > > > > Has anyone ever got two computers to work as one? I think it is called > > parallel computing. > > > > It would be used to solve a hard math problem or analyze data > > from a survey. > > > > I was reading Linux can do this relativley well. > > > > Aloha, > > Matt > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LUAU mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau > > > > _______________________________________________ > LUAU mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau >
