[luau] Two computers working as one

[Matthew John Darnell]

Thanks Ron, those sites look good; or should I say intimidating?

-Matt

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ronald Willis" <ronal at aloha.com>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 4:42 AM
Subject: RE: [luau] Two computers working as one


> Hey Matt,
>
> Linux does distributed computing very easily. Imagine a classroom of
> computer sitting idle all night long. Or complete coporation of PC's doing
> nothing for at least 8 hours a day. Now imagine using all of those idle
> BogoMips to function as a rendering farm, or to crunch numbers like Seti.
>
> Look up Beowulf http://www.beowulf.org/beowulf/vendors/.
> RedHat has a good resource for Linux clusters.
> Books on Amazon, Linux Clusters...
> Of course the web will keep you busy too.
>
>
> Penguin Computing Clustering FAQs
>
> 1) What is a High Performance Cluster (HPC)?
> A High Performance Cluster is a generic term for a group of computers
> connected to work on a specific, computationally intensive problem.
Beowulf
> is a type of HPC. HPC is also an acronym for "High Performance Computing,"
a
> larger category that subsumes High Performance Clusters.
>
> More...>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: luau-admin at videl.ics.hawaii.edu
> > [mailto:luau-admin at videl.ics.hawaii.edu]On Behalf Of Matthew John
> > Darnell
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 6:20 PM
> > To: luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu
> > Subject: [luau] Two computers working as one
> >
> >
> > Aloha,
> >
> > Has anyone ever got two computers to work as one?  I think it is called
> > parallel computing.
> >
> > It would be used to solve a hard math problem or analyze data
> > from a survey.
> >
> > I was reading Linux can do this relativley well.
> >
> > Aloha,
> > Matt
> >
> >
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