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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kosh on July 16, 2009, 08:16:54 am

Title: Beowulf
Post by: Kosh on July 16, 2009, 08:16:54 am

I have a question, if I had 5 machines I'd like to make into slave nodes, 3 600MHz Pentium 3's, 1 2GHz P4, and 1 2.6GHz P4, is it possible to hook them up into a beowulf cluster?

Title: Re: Beowulf
Post by: Nuke on July 16, 2009, 10:08:59 pm

from glancing over the wikipedia entry you need a server, use your fastest comp for this. then somehow set the rest up to boot off a cd or the network. they dont need hard drives (though you can use them to boot from). youre gonna probibly one a good gigabit switch and probibly dual headed gigabit connection to the server to maximize bandwidth. none the less youl be hackng away at the linux commandline for days before it clicks onn and does what you want it to do.

Title: Re: Beowulf
Post by: Kosh on July 17, 2009, 12:15:55 am

Just wanted to know if it was possible, never said I thought it would be easy. Thanks.

Title: Re: Beowulf
Post by: Nuke on July 17, 2009, 03:08:08 am

i like the idea, but i hate linux.