[H-GEN] HUMBUG cluster WAS Re: [HUM-TALKS] Talk / Demonstration of MOSIX

[David Seikel]

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 --- Ben Fowler <fowlerb at optushome.com.au> wrote: 
> In fact, a couple of people in the club were considering chucking 
> together a HUMBUG Beowulf cluster as a special club project, but it 
> never got off the ground since we couldn't find an economical way to 
> house and power up the pile of motherboards we had access to.  It's a 
> shame, because a toy Beowulf cluster would be a fun and interesting toy 
> to play with, even for the experience of writing and testing some toy 
> parallel applications.

Any body interested in trying it again?  Personally I have programmed every
class of computing device except supercomputers, and I have this hole to
fill in my resume B-).

Instead of powering a bunch of motherboards, we could just use the
computers we normally bring to meetings.


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