[Nottingham] Linux PC super-cluster possible?

[Dale Einarson]

On Jul 4, 2007, at 12:27 AM, Martin wrote:

> Dennis Furr wrote:
>> Martin,
>>
>> You might want to check out Beowulf.
>
> Yes, I thought of that... But...
>
> Does the PVM do automatic load balancing?

PVM, MPI ... its all in how you write your applications, if the process 
is big, you have to wait.

> Anyway, I don't want to do any reprogramming!
>
> Is there an LTSP style "Beowulf"?

   Not really LTSP but... with  SGE you have qtcsh and qsh.  I have seen 
a PBS version  (but I just looked and can't confirm).


Cheers!
dale



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