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

[David Seikel]

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 --- Andrew Pullin <andrew at hotspurbgc.com.au> wrote: 
>     We could also ask for donations, or have a BBQ to raise money for
> Humbug
> to buy the machines for the meetings. If we could use 4 machines for a
> "clusterette" say to play with - cheap low spec machines would only cost
> us
> about $2500 tops (no monitors, keyboards etc). Maybe a rich entrepreneur
> could donate them to Humbug (how about it Hitcho? Tax write-off for your
> company - gift to a non profit organization). 

I think you missed the whole point of my post.  We already have lots of
machines at meetings.  Many people bring more than one.  More people could
scrape togother some extra hardware if we asked them to.  We don't have to
shell out money to buy hardware, we already have the hardware.  I say we
experiment (small at first to get it right like you sugested) with whatever
machinary we already have.  We don't need dedicated hardware for a cluster
that will only operate for ten hours every second saturday.

Since my machine is already setup as a file server for meetings, I will
dedicate some space for storing the needed software and other files.


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