Re: what can home user do with clusters ?!?

From: J.O. Aho (user_at_example.net)
Date: 12/22/03

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    v a c h wrote:
    > Hi,
    > I'm thinking about seting up a few computers I have laying around into a
    > cluster. I have 10+ Pentium I, II, Celeron, Duron and similiar setups.
    > What can I do with thoes? Can I make some linux setup so it encodes divx
    > more quickly? I know I can run seti on each machine, bat can I do it in
    > cluster so I run it on one machine but all ot them do CPU work?

    Can't say I know anything about clustering, but it's quite much about setting
    up a server where each computer makes one part of it, where another computer
    can take over a task as webserver when the main webserver gets down.

    But yes, there are CPU clustering system too, but usually they run a bit more
    advanced calculations than dvix encoding. As the data is sent over TCP/IP
    (protocol may be another), you need to keep in mind the preformance wont be
    "10000MHz" if you have 10 "1000MHz" machines clustered together and sharing
    the CPU power.

      //Aho

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