clustering linux

[Evilsizer]

im looking to put together a Cluster and was wondering if any one new of a formula i could use to caculate the mips (estimate) processing power.

specs so far:

P4 1.8a @ 2.4 -2.7 (depending on how lucky i am)
Abit BD7II or BE7 (not sure)
512 mb DDR400 ram
40 gig Seagate Barracuda ATA IV
Intel pro/100+ (with PXE BOOT)
Matrox MIll.2 8mb card (untill i can get some NV Quadro cards)

It will mainly be running either Seti or Genome@home and when i get more into it which is why later on the vid cards. I will turn it into a 3DFarm. I plan on having 4 in the cluster to start out with.


note: let me know what yall think about that setup.

[mart_man00]

sorry, i know this is a old thread, but im wondering how to figure that out too.

anyone?

[ehawk]

This is really cool....just dropping knoppix CD's into the nodes, the clusterKnoppix CD into the server...autodetection of nodes (no configuring as they're added)...instant cluster...haven't used it.

The screen shots on the page below show load-balancing efficiencies, from which I guess you could figure out performance.

http://bofh.be/clusterknoppix/

[arkaine23]

Speaking of knoppix.....

I think this is more along the lines of what you're looking for if you want a seti or folding cluster, since those DC apps have to be run seperately on each client of a cluster.

http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=216552

Seti/Folding/Prime all can run in ramdisk booted from a Knoppix CD to make a diskless cluster easy to manage. There samba, vnc, and of course ssh to make it easy to monitor the layers from another machine. I wrote shell scripts to launch/kill/configure the distributed computing clients to make it easy to use for the inexperienced. It runs folding@home at start-up. I'm also trying to add a feature to periodically save work units to a pen drive or hard drive on the network in case of power failure or any shutdown, since you would lose them otherwise.

Try it, you'll be pleasantly surprised.

[mart_man00]

i was thinking of setting up a very small one with old computers. the problem is no hard drive. the boot nics seem pricey and not that n00b friendly.


can only on just say how to roughly figure out computing power?