From: "Coetmeur, Alain" Newsgroups: comp.parallel Subject: re: Parrallel computing using Linux Date: 21 Jul 1999 14:26:43 GMT Organization: Approved: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu Message-Id: <7n4lb3$rrl$1@goldenapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu> Originator: bigrigg@ux6.sp.cs.cmu.edu Xref: ukc comp.parallel:15735 Anthony Bavuso a =E9crit dans le message <7m3chm$9ko$1@goldenapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu>... >Greetings, > >I am setting up an ethernet-LAN at home and I would like to use all my >old 486s and early pentiums for something instead of just gathering >dust. So I would like to set it up so that I can have distributed >processing capability over my LAN. > >I want to be able to write a program that can spawn threads and have >the operating system assign them to other unloaded computers on the >LAN. > >Is linux the OS I need to do this? Mosix is a system (a bundle of patches) based on Linux 2.2 or Open BSD that allow transparent migration of *processes* (not thread AFAIK) look at http://www.mosix.cs.huji.ac.il/ > If not then any other ideas? Also >are there any suggestions for network hardware? Should I use 100mb >ethernet, fast ethernet, ,,,,? look around the "Beowulf" architecture on the net. www.beowulf.org for example, and related links. look also at the associated mailing list there. with 486 I think you won't be able to use fully the 100Mb/s. 10Mb/s may be enough. moreover the most important may be the fact to use switch instead of repeating hub. anyway 100Mb/s may be a good choice in order to share a repeating hub, but 10Mb/s swichted may be more effective. anyway look at price and I think ther exists low cost 100Mb/s cards and hub, and no more 10Mb/s. -- Articles to bigrigg+parallel@cs.cmu.edu (Admin: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu) Archive: http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/internet/usenet/comp.parallel