[luau] Two computers working as one

[Matthew John Darnell]

I have a friend that works for an "unamed software company" and he thinks
that is going to be a huge growth area.  The "unnamed software company" is
spending lots of money on being able to cluster servers reliably with their
software.

I thought this quote was interesting...

Q.Should I build a cluster of these 100 386s?
A.If it's OK with you that it'll be slower than a single Celeron-333
machine, sure.  Great way to learn.

I wonder if large scale terminal services is another target area.

-Matt



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jan Daniel Semrau" <jsemrau at campus.hpu.edu>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 8:03 AM
Subject: Re: [luau] Two computers working as one


> If you want to set that up, you should have a look at
> Clusterknoppix, which does clustering in a convenient and
> easy way. Moreover, it is AFAIR based on openMosix, so
> every application potentially benefits from the clustering as it is a
> Kernel extension instead of Cluster software like
> Beowulf or Globus where applications need to be created for.
> In my opinion, you should not just jump on the clustering bandwagon as
> there are some drawbacks and pitfalls included.
> For example a 10MBit network can be a bottleneck.
>
> Hope it helps, Jan
>
> Matthew John Darnell wrote:
>
>
> >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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