cluster clients

[tebibyte]

Note: I know relatively little about how Linux works

There are several options when using LTSP, however I am looking for more of a cluster like solution in terms of processing power. It would be nice if the CPU loads were balanced across all of the systems, regardless of whether the client's data is on the same client. (i'm Sorry If I sound confusing). In addition, each part of the cluster is also a client with a userspace. Thanks Max

[pressureman]

Bundling a cluster/grid client, or providing a cluster-enabled kernel (OpenMOSIX maybe) isn't such a bad idea. Universities and other academic institutes would probably be interested in this. I've heard of universities turning all the public student computers into cluster nodes at night, allowing the comp. sci, maths or engineering faculties to run resource intensive jobs.

[rick_1010]

I would like to say that this is an excellent idea. I have been trying to get a cluster running for a while and am putting the idea on hold until I can hire some workers to do this for me as it is turning out to be a rather intensive project (I want to cluster older machines to use in a web development environment). I am able to get OpenMosix running as a cluster but only on old distributions, such as Fedora Core 1, the reason is that the OpenMosix project is well out of date at this point so you have to recompile to an older kernel to use it with any newer distro and from what I can tell this can make it difficult to install the latest softwares.

Anyways, I don't know if it means anything but I think this is a great idea, I know there are at least a few other people on these forums that are interested in this.. something I think would be great would be a cluster running Xubuntu, just think of how well it could make use of older computing hardware.