--- Brion Hase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cluster Computing: > > If we could get switches that would be better. Using hubs, the 100 > M/b > type (or faster) would be best, especially if going with disk less > nodes.
I totaly agree :)
> I think the idea of getting it housed at one of the colleges or
> schools is
> a really cool idea. Might also get us a guaranteed pipe. If we
> can't get
> a school to house it, maybe we could talk to some businesses. Need
> a
> place where we could get physical access most of the time as well.
This Could be good and bad. The school or busines could give us a pipe
and take the brunt of the electical costs. But what if they say "Its on
our property get off"
> Ted, besides recompiling the kernel really, really fast what other
> types of
> things could we do with it? Are there any good image generation
> programs
> which run on clusters (or that we could port)? One of the guys
> (Mark?) at
> the last meeting was talking about doing some image stuff at the May
> meeting.
I Know as far a image rendering goes their are three Programs that
we could showcase on this bad boy.
1: Blender :) {finaly opensourced}
2: PovRay { nice redering pgm all be it confusing though }
3: Cinelerra { power house of a movie editor :) }
Along with imaging, you could use your shell account for compileing
packages that are CPU intencive ie. Xfree86. There is a program out
there called pmake { for parallel make'ing }
> I can donate cut pieces of plywood if you want use them to mount on
> some
> kind of hander. Otherwise, we could try finding something
> else. Plexiglass or some kind of sheet metal would also work. I
> still
> think it would work best to pull them out of the cases. It would
> take less
> space and the cluster could be cooled with a couple inexpensive used
> fans
> from WalMart. The cluster can expand over time.
I'm attaching a png pic that gives a little visual to my messy idea
for a cluster housing.
Installfest:
I plan to hang up flyers around the north side of town :)
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