HOWTO: Setup a parallel cluster

[erat123]

Hi All,

I've been playing around with parallel clustering using ParallelKnoppix. It's awesome! But, I really don't like Knoppix as an every day OS. I know I can install vmware and run my Ubuntu from it, and I'm sure the vmware will be clustered as well... but, does anyone know of a way to setup Ubuntu for parallel clustering?

I really don't understand much about parallel clustering other than it allows multiple computers to act as a multi-core processor.

I just have a lot of PII and PIII computers that I would like to throw in a room and just play around with, there's really no point for doing this project yet, other than just for fun.

Thanks for any help!

[regomodo]

Basically what most clusters are made up from in Linux.

http://openmosix.sourceforge.net/instant_openmosix_clusters.html

This guys blog (now looks to be dead) explained how he did his load-balanced cluster,albeit with fairly fast computers.

http://clusterfudge.wordpress.com/

Lastly, clusterknoppix seems to be the way to go. It's live-cd based.

I plan on doing a 4/5 node cluster with some 1GHz boards i can find with Gigabit ethernet. First try it all with clusterknoppix and then later run chaos (from ram) on the slaves

afaik, only 1person has got ubuntu with clustering.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3286543#post3286543

http://www.clustermonkey.net//content/view/211/1/

[againu]

Hi everyone! I hope since last year something moved forward in this idea?
I am currently pretty much interesting to build some one too.
If anyone has got some fresh idea or ready-to-go solution/instruction, please drop me here or send email/PM.
Thanks in advance.

[ocr14a]

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