Seti on multiple machines.
Hi friends, Sean Moores here. I was wondering if anyone has tried this and could offer any advice: I have 6 various spare motherboards/chip/ram combos I want to run seti on. My main machine is on redhat 7 and seti client. I want to setup all the spares as seti processing mahines without video or harddrives or anything. Is there a way to use the 'wake on lan' and a small linux download to run seti on these machines, and have them upload thru the network ?
Yes, this is a total newbie question, but hey, im willing to learn!!! |
well if you're willing to learn the hard way, why not make a linux cluster (see http://tldp.org ) and then everything you do on those machines will be spread across them all... there's no WOL support or such like AFAIK
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Yes, a seti cluster seems a good idea. Clusters work best when they're build with similar machines, so performance won't be perfect, but it's worth it to try.
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Thanks Acid_Kewpie,
Can you run a cluster with 1 main server, and the rest have no video/kbd/mouse? I have been looking at beowolf and the other clusters, but I didnt know if thats how they were operated. Thanks Again, Sean |
One more question. Clusters distribute the load right? Well, Seti is not written to be run by multiprocessors. Rather, one instance per processor. Is that possible in a cluster?
Thanks A Million, You All are Great! Sean Moores |
You can run as many instances of seti as you wish. I've seen set running on multiprocessor machines (and it was faster that on a single processor), so I suppose it'll use a cluster, too.
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