Clustering
Posted by colin on Thu, 05/17/2007 - 07:21 in
Anyone here ever mess with clustering? I'm trying to come up with a good reason to do so. It seems that there are a lot of technologies that come on LiveCD now and use Linux / FreeBSD to allow for distributed computing. Things that come to mind:
- Rendering
- Music production
- Searching for aliens
Some links:
FanBoys do it up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xgrid
Old School: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf_%28computing%29
Multimedia oriented: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyne:bolic
From what I've read in my travels to employee a bunch of crappy old G4s in an xgrid is that it's useful for:
I don't do any of the above so I didn't get very far in the project. The only rendering I do goes pretty quick on my workstation and would take longer to travel over the network that to just run it locally.