Hey. I registered to this forum because there appears to be a ton of people who could possibly have my answer. I'm a composer and basicly I want a ton of processing power. I also do graphics design both with 2d and 3d environments. I like linux a lot, esecially its networking capabilities but unfortunately, it lacks the software support I need for the applications I want to use. To get this extra processing, I'm wanting to set up a diskless linux cluster, course that being a master computer with a drive that all the nodes boot from. On top of linux, I want to install VMWare or somethign similar where I can then install Windows XP over the top (yes yes, flame me for needing to use Windows to compose and make a living lol). What my question is, will VMWare make it appear to XP that I'm on a single very fast or atleast a several processor machine or will I be restricted to the master computers processing capabilities? I'd like to know before I go out and waste my money . Currently, I'm looking at both AMD and Intel solutions. The P4 2.4GHz at $170 would do nicely. However it works out, it needs to be semi-cheap (less than $4000) and around 10GHz-15GHz. Thank you very much for any help you can provide .

Cheers,
Zac

I'm not an expert but unless VMware is written to take advantage of clustering then its not going to multi process. I am sure that linux can do what you want with out having to run Virtual software. You should check out the software fourm or search for some threads on this. I know that there is some developers on here that can help.

When I understand you right, you want to export single processes to other nodes, isnt it?

I would try for simple rendering openMosix. You can use vmware if want to run mulitple Linux-instances on one Hardwarenode.
Teach me if I am wrong.

Wondered what situation was now,have run a cluster knoppix since 1999 beginning with openmosix,kernel 2.4/2.6.Am wondering info for microknoppix kernel 3.18 networking a headless. raspberryPI,affects of Linux,anyone tried similar thing with pentium4,Microknoppix Debian,Ubuntu,fedora,or red hat oravlelinux servers,zen that,samba,leap,ssh etc for which protocol effects may interact.Bsd is an image on rasp scared but not sure if it is up and running,lights say so,it hasn't changed for two years?The main node has been running non stop since 1999 with at least four slaves,all which used too be in the same processor class,although older flatbed beige boxes.I now have an old eMac,new iPad,new Samsung Galaxy,new 512 Dell em64t dual processor with SDD drive,raid,Gpu card,sound blaster z audigy,and a step combined gnu centOS node Dell with small FF MTX board ,raid card , sata(only likes 80gb though),512ram! -which has earlier model of the em64t processor.Have successfully run Arduino duel on laptop clustered to with Windows Vista ,have problems getting applications too install or complete build,compilers OpenMP and bcc-pl/1,Intel cuda,IIBM s/360 to 7094 with eco net mau connection terminal tn3079.

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