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anyone know of any clustering software. i want to cluster together all my pc's into 1 super computer.
Steven Edwards
06-13-2003, 01:22 PM
da, how many computers do you have? Are they currently networked together?
-Steven
3 and yes they are networked.
through an old 10mb hub. but cable and nic cards are 100mb.
jimnms
06-13-2003, 04:19 PM
If you run Linux on them, do a search on freshmeat.net (no it's not a p0rn site) for cluster.
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Steven Edwards
06-13-2003, 05:00 PM
I was going to ask if DA was afraid of Linux. I think there's a distro that is specifically setup for distributed computing via a home network.
-Steven
no, all pc's here are XP.
Steven Edwards
06-14-2003, 12:15 PM
DA, what exactly are you thinking of doing with your "super computer"?
-Steven
compute the number of excuses researchers put out. ya think a super computer is strong enough?
Steven Edwards
06-14-2003, 06:34 PM
I dunno if it could or not. Shouldn't be too hard to figure out, though... be sure to use software that supports numbers over 4billion. http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/tongue.gif
There's a command line program in XP called Cluster[.exe] which -- I think -- may allow you to distribute a program's processing over multiple computers but aside from that I can't think of any general purpose clustering utility for XP.
-Steven
BlkDiamond
06-29-2003, 12:54 PM
I've yet to come across any free clustering applications for windows based platforms. If your using Linux, there are several open source clustering applications at both http://freahmeat.net or http://sourceforge.net that you can download and use. Keep in mind you need to have "cluster aware" app to truly take advantage of a server cluster's features.
Just to clarify:cluster.exe
Is an alternative to using Cluster Administrator to administer clusters from the command prompt. You can also call Cluster.exe from command scripts to automate many cluster administration tasks. It's not a process distributing or clustering application.
"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created
them."
BlkDiamond
06-29-2003, 12:55 PM
.....that should be http://freshmeat.net instead of "freahmeat"
"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created
them."