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So does each machine need a hard drive to load an OS on? If so how big of a
drive? Or can you boot each machine with ethernet cards that have boot proms
off of the master server? Like a linux terminal server (see www.ltsp.org) and
to tell you the honest truth I'd look for a laptop for the master server...
Reason being laptops make the best servers, small screen attached, if the
battery work, you have "battery backup" when the power hiccups. and if you
are still talking about mounting these motherboards to a big sheet of plywood
on the wall... Build a shelf in the middle to set the laptop on. Like we
talked about last meeting, this would truly be "working art".
Mike Schieuer
On Fri March 14 2003 1:18 pm, dax wood wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I'm opening up a new thread for discussion on setting up a cluster.
> This little project I'm starting up is open to whom ever chooses to
> join. I hope to get the support from a couple businesses {pro bono :)}
> for simple cheap stuff to add to cluster and hope some of you can
> contribute. I just need some people to bounce some ideas around
> for both the hardware setup and software setup.
>
> I also hope when this project is completed I could setup this cluster
> to the net so that anyone in the group who would like a cluster account
> could simply ssh to the master node and compute till their hearts
> content. ;)
>
>
> Here is a list of stuff that have been promised so far:
> 1:: 10 P1 mother boards ----for the client nodes
> \----> all with integrated nic's and video cards
> 1:: PCI graphics card --- for the master node
> 1:: Keyboard --- for the master node
> 1:: Mouse -- for the master node
> 1:: Possibly one big assed fileing cabinet --{case}
> 5:: Power supplies -- for clients and master
>
> The big thing I've found so far is that the easy part is the hardware,
> and the hard part is the applications them self s.
> There is a couple of routes to go in the way of clustering.
>
> http://openmosix.sourceforge.net/ {openmosix}
> http://beowulf-underground.org/ {good reference page}
>
> Openmosix is a kernel patch. It simply shares processes across a
> network of openmosix patched computers.
>
> Beowulf is a general term for clusters. It involves Message Passing for
> applications that are considered "Paralyzed".
>
>
> As its stands I still know very little about the whole clustering side
> of Geek world, but I am learning slowly, and I hope some of you guys
> jump in and learn too :)
>
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