On Sunday 24 March 2002 08:03 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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
You win the bragging rights contest here. Hell, it's all that I can do to keep one system working. -- cmg
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