Clutering with PPC.

[FLeiXiuS]

Hey guys this is my first time journeying onto the venture of power pc linux. Welp it turned out a success but the probem is, I have 9 G4's which are doing absolutely nothing. My idea was to cluster them together. I began to look at Beowulf and Open Mosix. I couldn't get either of them to work with the ppc kernel. They are designated for i386 and a few others.

If anyone has any ideas on what other options there are available please let me know. I just want to do load sharing, no need for mirroring / backup services. Load purposes is all that matters to me. I would love to have them connected via network (gig-e)

I'll give full recognition in the motd to the souls who can find a solution. Then you can sit there and ssh to a super computer, wouldn't you feel special to see your name? ;-)

[DJ_Max]

With 9 G4's, why not send me a few of them :)

I did a quick search, and found http://www.garbled.net/clusterit.html
Works on the PPC arch.

[FLeiXiuS]

Yeah, i was looking at that, and It didn't agree with network load sharing. I'm attempting openmosix again. The kernel is compiling this time, hopefully trying to get a good work around, perhaps prevail a unstable release for the PPC community. I will follow up on this in a couple of hours maybe days. Thanks for the reply.

[FLeiXiuS]

Welp just an update, the kernel is giving me some trouble.


nvram.c: In function `read_nvram':
nvram.c:41: error: parse error before "unsigned"
nvram.c:46: error: `i' undeclared (first use in this function)
nvram.c:46: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
nvram.c:46: error: for each function it appears in.)
nvram.c:48: warning: left-hand operand of comma expression has no effect
make[3]: *** [nvram.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.26/drivers/macintosh'
make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.26/drivers/macintosh'
make[1]: *** [_subdir_macintosh] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.26/drivers'
make: *** [_dir_drivers] Error 2


Any one who may have some idea's please let me know. Thank you.

[FLeiXiuS]

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[WW]

Have you checked out Apple's Xgrid?

http://www.apple.com/acg/xgrid/

It's not linux, but it looks like a nice clustering tool.

[FLeiXiuS]

Ahh Yes, I have; but I needed this to be linux. Thank you though.

[ewaldgroup]

Check this out. Im not sure if it will work with G4s or not. but at least its a start.

http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/y-hpc/

TerraSoft used to have a distribution called Black Lab. If the above link doesnt work, you might try to find an iso for Black Lab.


-ewaldgroup

[ewaldgroup]

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