How to setup clusters

Alma J Wetzker almaw
Mon May 17 11:50:53 PDT 2004


> Aaron Grewell <agrewell at uwb.edu>  Mon, 11 Aug 2003 21:31:26 -0700
> 
> On Sat, 09 Aug 2003 19:54:44 -0500
> Ben Duncan <bns at meta3.net> emitted these signals:
> 
>>I set up a Mosix one about 2 years ago for a trade show.
>>Not a problem and I really liked it.
>>
> 
> Another vote for Mosix.  My office workstation is currently a Mosix
> cluster.  I got tired of my compiles bogging the CPU (made my MP3's
> skip), so I grabbed a couple of spare machines and lashed them all
> together with Mosix.  Now when I run a compile it runs on the unloaded
> CPU's instead of the one with all my eye-candy on it.  Who needs XFCE? 
> I just add nodes!  ;) Just make sure the other nodes are in the other
> room, otherwise it gets a bit loud.  It will also keep you warm in
> winter.

It sounds like I need to give that a try.  I live in Minnesota so 
keeping warm in the winter is a serious consideration!  ;)

     -- Alma



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