[NTLUG:Discuss] RE: Discuss digest, Vol 1 #384 - 5 msgs

[michael hart]

I've been working on a cluster myself.  I'm putting the boxes together from
scratch. So far, I've got 4 pentium+ class machines  (AMDK62-500,
AMDK62-350, CYRIX-300,AMDK62-350) and 4 more 386/486 boxes.) Total
investment (~90% complete) is <1200.00 (anyone have some cheap CDROM drives
they want to unload.)

You should look into MOSIX for a cluster backbone instead of BEOWULF.  Mosix
clusters in the kernal, and is (supposed to be) completely program
invisible. Your cluster successfully handles off-the-shelf programs in a
multi-CPU manner (that is, Star Office comes up in <1 second on 3 350
processors.) Beowulf (in my limited understanding) requires programs
specifically written for parallel processing.

Mosix requires a pentium class processor, so the 486 systems will ultimately
turn into XTERM's.

I haven't fully assembled my cluster, so I can't review it or provide much
assistance. Has anyone got a working MOSIX cluster?

(http://www.mosix.org)


>From: Kyle_Davenport at compusa.com
>To: discuss at ntlug.org
>Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 10:46:28 -0500
>Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Dell Computer -- Linux - M$ server
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>Reply-To: discuss at ntlug.org



>I've been hoping for a long time to find some compact, yet cheap, server
class
>pc's for a beowolf cluster.  Dell's linux server here is only 1U high! 
Even 10
>of those wouldn't take up much room, and they are the cheapest 1U servers
(with
>adequate performance) I've seen.   Still I wish these components were
available
>for the do-it-yourselfer, because $2K x 10 is still too much for a toy.

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greenglow484 at juno.com on 06/15/2000 11:22:29 PM