Awesome...well I don't hear anyone saying they know for fact it won't work.
In fact, in my ignorance, I think I heard that it's a stupid idea unless
the machines are doing nothing anyway.
And yes, the idea is to eventually move the operation into rack mounted
blades with network storage. I just want to stop this retarded idea that
you have to buy a brand new $1000 computer everytime one of your towers goes
down just so someone can run the software we do.
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Joey Kelly <joey@joeykelly.net> wrote:
> On 4/22/2011 10:21 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
>>
>> A computational cluster (of which Beowulf is the most popular form)
>> typically has a "controller" (with lots of disk space) and the compute nodes
>> which are typically blades or 1-2U rack mounted machines w/ fast CPUs and
>> lots of RAM but not much disk space. There's no reason, though, why an
>> organization's desktop computers couldn't be dual-purposed as compute nodes.
>>
>>
> I tried to talk my boss at The Company I'm Ashamed To Admit Having Worked
> For into doing just that. We had a hundred desktops sitting idle all night
> and I had this big plan of selling compute cycles.
>
> --Joey
>
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