[buug] Clusters
Mark Hedges
hedges at ucsd.edu
Wed Sep 4 10:19:10 PDT 2002
On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, f.johan.beisser wrote:
> beowulf used to be a pain to set up and design. the advantage, of course,
> is that with a little programming savy, you could have an MPP machine for
> much less than the cost of a Cray.
There's a Debian package called FAI (fully automatic
installation) that the creator wrote primarily to set up a
cluster of beowulf machines. It should make things easier.
I was wondering myself, do beowulf nodes have to run on
identitcal machines? Can a beowulf run on disparate units?
Would it just bottleneck processing speed to the slowest CPU?
Does anyone care to explain the difference between parallel
computing and distributed computing?
--mark--
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