Seti on multiple machines.

Sean Moores · 08-21-2002, 03:06 PM

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!!!

acid_kewpie · 08-21-2002, 04:55 PM

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

Mara · 08-21-2002, 05:03 PM

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.

Sean Moores · 08-21-2002, 05:10 PM

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

Sean Moores · 08-21-2002, 05:12 PM

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

Mara · 08-22-2002, 11:32 AM

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.