Build a monster Linux cluster

Posted at 3:48pm on Wednesday April 15th 2009

Our chums at PC Plus have put online their detailed guide to building an ultra-powerful Linux-based cluster. "It's easy to use any spare machines you may have to create a single homogeneous computing mega-matrix and calculation engine just by wiring them all together and running the right software." So, don't leave those old boxes sitting abandoned in the loft - link them up and start crunching numbers like there's no tomorrow.

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Awesomeness.

Dan Dart (not verified) - April 15, 2009 @ 8:54pm

Now I can learn how!!

Evil Genius

Anonymous T-Shirt collector (not verified) - April 15, 2009 @ 9:05pm

At last I'll have enough computing power to take over the world and re-populate it with Penguins!!!

NOTACLUSTER

Mature Penguin (not verified) - April 18, 2009 @ 9:13am

It's a useful thing to know for Blender users but its not really a 'cluster', is it?

IS A CLUSTER

Tore (not verified) - April 22, 2009 @ 9:09pm

Don't be confused, it holds all the properties of a cluster.
It comprises a cluster of nodes, dedicated for compute intensive tasks, or just a 'compute cluster'.

There are two basic types of

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - April 27, 2009 @ 10:41am

There are two basic types of clusters hpc (high performance for do lots of math with just one program) and hac (high availability for redundant computing such as to keep a web server always up), At least some discussion should have been mentioned about that. I did not see anything about clustering in that articel. I must be blind. The www.howtoforge.com has some real articles about setting up a cluster.