anyone have/built a beowulf cluster???

[zskillz]

I was recently reading through the latest WIRED, and it has an article on beowulf clusters... it got me to thinking... hmm, I'd kinda like to make one of those

even if it's just for fun, and it is made with old 486's, who cares!?! It's worth the learning experience...

anyone got some good advise for me?
-Z

[Missing the point]

Ditto for me http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[BBA]

I've got the instructions to how to do it...I think it was salah from MrC's ( www.mrcs.net (http://www.mrcs.net) ) who posted it once.

[Missing the point]

Do ya think ya could post the instructions? I can't seem to find it on the site or in the forum http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif

[Rat]

This site is quite technical and gives a little history, and who knows.... maybe links to what you need to find out: http://www.beowulf.org/

P.S.; There's a good FAQ on this site for those who don't know what beowulf is.

Rat...

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[randy48]

Here's several links that will help. I've got several more "bookmarked" at work, I'll try to remember to post them tomorrow. The parallel virtual machine is interesting! Free software to setup a cluster and ported to most OSs, even Widows!
http://www.beowulf.org/howto/howto.html
http://www.epm.ornl.gov/pvm/pvm_home.html
http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~SP/Workshop.mhpcc/pvm/PvmIntro.html

[Rat]

One for Missing: http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/research/beowulf/tutorial/beosoft/


Rat...

[Missing the point]

Thanks RAT http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[Missing the point]

After reading BeoWulf.org's FAQ, I decided against building a BeoWulf.

I will, however, make a crack rack for RC5 http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/biggrin.gif


hehe, this shall be fun!

[zskillz]

why did u decide against doing the cluster MPT?
just wondering...
-Z

[Missing the point]

Far too much work, and it seems as though there would be NO benifit from it whatsoever, for the stuff that I do. I play Unreal Tournament, games like that...

I will just set the machines on a network, and make em a crack rack http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[reddog4629]

http://stonesoup.esd.ornl.gov/photos/1999-05/


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[superraton01]

heres the short take on
beowulf:
1. as u can see from other replies, no one
here has ever done it. it has never been
done ourside of universities or similar inst.
2. the bottleneck is the software, the
hardware is straightfwd.

[SalaTar]

http://www.mrcs.net/board/mrcubb/ubb/Forum16/HTML/000059.html
This BBA?

[Dash]

Actually myself and a group of friends are building one right now at our High School. 4 Dual P166 compaq servers, 30 or so P133s sitting around. Ive setup our master server by now, on Redhat 6.2. Recompiled a kernel for the duals, recompiled a kernel for everything else, the whole thing is using NFS-root to boot off the main server. Unfortunately we had to break for Thanksgiving, but Ive talked to the guys at Stone Supercomputer, and a couple distributed projects, should be fun =p

[SalaTar]

The Idea behind this is HUGE...take 50 486's and call it to do tasks that may be Cpu intensive for a "normal cpu" and let it go to town

[BBA]

Must have been it...I thought Beowulf was mentioned...guess it was just linux.