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

[+0Ny BilbRough]

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G'day David,
this sounds like fun
how many boxen do you need to start?
Cheers Tony

David Seikel wrote:
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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.
> 
> http://movies.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Movies
> - What's on at your local cinema?
> 
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