hi

is their any website that takes about clustering in detail?
i have many questions like how many pcs can be connected at once?
what admin program should be used? what about www.mosix.org ?

the linux distro is redhat ...

i only need to be put on the track

thanks

try www.google.com/linux

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDE...tml#ADMCLUSTER

http://extremelinux.esd.ornl.gov/

http://www.beowulf.org/

Hope thsi helps

I would be interested in knowing what you come up with.

I have considered this but given the power of computers today it seems that the communication between them will be a major bottleneck. If however there are large amounts of data to process for some project it could be viable as done in the SETI project.

I've built a small Beowulf cluster using PIII processors. The problem wasn't so much the bandwidth bottle neck, but the uses of the cluster. Programs have to have their code altered to take advantage of the mutiple prccessors. I used Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) for the clustering libraries and it did work great. I managed to rip and encode my audio cd's really, really, really quick and I could calculate PI (3.14159.....) really, really fast and to many decimal places, but that was about it. Having the cluster connected and working isn't going to make things faster on your computer for the everyday user. If it's for fun, as was the case for me, then do it, but if you think you'll be really productive with it I would reconsider. It takes a lot of programming and time to make programs "see" and use the other computers in the cluster. You are better off investing your money in a faster single processor or a dual processor configuration. Just my $.02.

Linux Central has a Scyld Beowuld CD for sale for only a few bucks. It's an excellent start for anyone interested in Beowulf clustering. I set up a 13-node cluster using this software in minutes.