How to setup clusters

Michael Hipp Michael
Mon May 17 11:50:53 PDT 2004


Alma J Wetzker wrote:

>> 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!  ;)

Dumb question here ...

Are you guys talking about Mosix http://www.mosix.org/ or openMosix 
http://openmosix.sourceforge.net/ ?

Michael



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