On Wed, 2 Apr 2014, Digimer wrote:
On 02/04/14 03:46 PM, Bill Oliver wrote:
On Wed, 2 Apr 2014, Digimer wrote:
>
> Ya, just a little TMI.
>
> I think you will need something fairly custom HPC setup... You will
> need to find a way to break your work up into pieces and send them out
> the the various nodes, then collect the returned results and piece
> them back together (and handle timeouts of jobs not returned by a
> given node and re-issue to another node).
>
> There are some projects out there that might work as a foundation, but
> it's slipping outside my expertise (I'm an HA admin). I would suggest
> stopping by freenode.net's #hpc channel and seeing what they might be
> able to recommend.
>
>
I've run a small render farm back when I did forensic animations -- but
you don't have to have the computers connected for a render farm. But
yeah, if I have 100 images and want to do ffts on all of them, I can run
scripts on five machines that do 20 each. I'd like to see if a "real"
cluster would improve stuff. In addition, some of the software I've
used supports real parallelism.
billo
How do you define "real cluster"?
Something that I can take *one* program compiled for parallelization that will
distribute the processing among machines, as compared to running multiple
invocations of a program on different machine, each chewing on a different
dataset.
For instance, a render farm where I run 15 instances of Maya or Blender on 15 machines, each
rendering a different set of frames to be later combined for an animation isn't a "real
cluster" to me. Running one instance of Maya or Blender to use the memory and processing of
all 15 machines would be a "real cluster" for me -- assuming a parallel version of Maya
or Blender that could do that, of course.
billo
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