[Gllug] Best option for a lot of compute power

[Richard]

John Winters wrote:

>I'm looking into software for the production of school timetables.  All
>the approaches seem to have one thing in common - they needs lots of
>compute power.
>
>The front runner at the moment is Tablix, which has good support for
>running on a whole LAN-full of machines. Unfortunately, although we have
>hundreds of machines at school they almost all run Windows and Tablix
>hasn't yet been ported to Windows.  (The actual application would be
>pretty easy, but add in all the necessary support services and it
>becomes a bigger task.)
>  
>
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Depending on how your Windows desktops are set up (I'm assuming some 
elegant, centralised system here); is running bochs + Linux on each 
desktop a possibility? Ok, so the per-machine CPU isn't going to be 
great, but if you've got a few labs full of machines then it should fly.

As I was trying to figure out what's going on with this Tablix thing, I 
tripped over Tablix on Morphix ( http://www.kiberpipa.org/~tomaz/tom/ ) 
- a bootable iso with automatic cluster config... "In theory" it should 
be a doddle to use with bochs. The only trick is setting up the IP routing.

Does anyone know of a (free) Windows equivalent to tuntap? I know VMware 
has all this stuff, and there are free NAT/router/firewall utilities for 
Windows; but I've never found a "virtual NIC" for Windows.

I like this idea a lot. I'm not sure it's practical for you, now. I just 
hope it's usable by someone, soon.

Richard
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