On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, FemmeFatale wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I thought some Mandrake users might be interested in this: > > > > Last Thursday (3/15/02) our local Linux user group (http://www.flux.org) > > had a speaker demonstrating how to setup a Beowulf. It was a small > > cluster consisting of only three machines, but apparently could scale > > without modification to 10 machines and with minor modifications to 16. > > With the addition of more control machines it could scale to 255 nodes > > or better. > > And this is good for...what? Besides geek bragging rights? :)
You mean there's supposed to be some other reason besides bragging rights? Incredible. During the winter I've found that I can do without heating if instead I power up the cluster. OK, I lied. The coldest it got here was something like 72F. I've been in shorts and T-shirts throughout the "winter" but it was the thought that counts. Seriously, though, it will eventually be used for some ray tracing projects and maybe some math work. I've been dinking with POVRay for a while and have been rigging the .ini files to specify which frames get rendered on which machines. It's semi-automated with some shell scripts, but is absolutely useless if I want to generate a single high resolution image. OK, it really is just for bragging rights. :D
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