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

[Andrew Pullin]

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Hi Tony,
    I have a friend who will finish his PHD in Clustering in June. He
recommends that four Pentium I's should be adequate to set up a Cluster that
will be suitable for getting the basics right, and should be recent enough
technology that can be scaled or improved upon later. What we might be
looking for would be four similarly speced boxen that would be donated to
Humbug for Club use, and a custodian who would be willing to cart the boxen
to meetings regularly or as required, who has access to a permanent Net
connection and would be willing to pay for power and access (that may or may
not be reimbursed depending on what the Clustering SIG works out with the
Humbug Committee).

    Pentium I's (or later) would be adequate because they are recent enough
to have support for 100 BaseT networking and Large Hard Disk Drives if we
needed them. We would need a "front end" machine, and three cluster "nodes".
All software is of course free and downloadable from the Net.
    Cheers!
        Andrew.


----- Original Message -----
From: "+0Ny BilbRough" <mtbilbro at bigpond.net.au>
To: <general at lists.humbug.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 9:14 PM
Subject: Re: [H-GEN] HUMBUG cluster WAS Re: [HUM-TALKS] Talk / Demonstration
of MOSIX


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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.
> >
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