downgrade.org— Have a bunch of crappy, old PCs lying around? Want to combine their computing power and make a linux cluster out of them? Find out how in this article.
Feb 6, 2006View in Crawl 4
Yeah, the only reason you would want to do this is for practice or for fun on the real thing. "11. Should I build a cluster of these 100 386s? [1999-05-13]If it's OK with you that it'll be slower than a single Celeron-333 machine, sure. Great way to learn. "I have a feeling, though this question uses 386's, that clustering a lot of PII's together just doesn't produce enough computing power for the electric bill.
FullMetalMonkey wrote: "I have 20 P3s lying around so I might do this! I wonder if I can have the cluster torrent files? Hmmmmm....."This info is not really an answer to your question, but I thought you might be interested... The latest version of Rocks (the cluster distro mentioned in this article) uses a new Avalanche installer, which utilizes BitTorrent... So when you PXE boot 100+ (or even 1000+) nodes at a time, Torrents are used to efficiently pull the O/S from multiple hosts in parallel. In the past, this was always a major problem for large cluster installs -- they had to be cycled on in groups or else nodes would hang when trying to pull their O/S from the head node.
gryphnFeb 6, 2006
Hey, pretty cool! I'll have to try it out and see what I can make from it. Can it make a Beowulf cluster of atomic supermen?
motionblurFeb 8, 2006
Dugg, just for the Slashdot reference!!!!!
lampshadeFeb 8, 2006
Yeah, the only reason you would want to do this is for practice or for fun on the real thing. "11. Should I build a cluster of these 100 386s? [1999-05-13]If it's OK with you that it'll be slower than a single Celeron-333 machine, sure. Great way to learn. "I have a feeling, though this question uses 386's, that clustering a lot of PII's together just doesn't produce enough computing power for the electric bill.
kitejumpingFeb 8, 2006
sort of useless unless the PCs are somewhat recent and you install gigabit ethernet cards in them...
tyrekickerFeb 8, 2006
I think he needs to put his webserver on a beowolf cluster to handle digg traffic.
tim949Feb 8, 2006
FullMetalMonkey wrote: "I have 20 P3s lying around so I might do this! I wonder if I can have the cluster torrent files? Hmmmmm....."This info is not really an answer to your question, but I thought you might be interested... The latest version of Rocks (the cluster distro mentioned in this article) uses a new Avalanche installer, which utilizes BitTorrent... So when you PXE boot 100+ (or even 1000+) nodes at a time, Torrents are used to efficiently pull the O/S from multiple hosts in parallel. In the past, this was always a major problem for large cluster installs -- they had to be cycled on in groups or else nodes would hang when trying to pull their O/S from the head node.
Closed AccountFeb 8, 2006
cyburdine, that link was bad for me. got a 404..
pedruFeb 8, 2006
@poet_willremove the last char ')' and the link will work
jamsFeb 8, 2006
"One word...'Bus speed'"