cluster

[Jonathan Hale]

Whoa!  Where did this come from???  And all the big guns (Brian
Densmore, Charles Steinkuehler, Dustin Decker, etc) crawling out of the
woodworks to pitch in, too!!!
Actually, I started doing something like this almost a year ago... was
taking the Advanced UNIX Admin course at JCCC... had visions of setting
up a master node on the removable hard drive they gave me to use for
class... downloaded Charles's Materhorn LRP distro and jacked up the
size of the ramdisk to boot up all the other lab PCs to use as slave
nodes... had a few problems loading network card and NFS modules into
Materhorn... downloaded MOSIX for the main drive and recompiled the
kernel, but it didn't work right, and there wasn't even any
documentation available for it yet... then, with only two or three weeks
left in the class (mind you, all of this was on my own time outside the
scope of the official curriculum) and me with actual graded assignments
left to do...

----- Original Message -----
From: Charles Steinkuehler <charles at steinkuehler.net>
To: <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 9:12 AM
Subject: Re: cluster

> > I have an idea: lets build a cluster. I have two or three older PC I
> can
> > contribute. It could be really fun.
>
> I have about 4 HP Vecta VL 5/75 (75 MHz Pentium) systems I've been
> wanting to sell at a garage sale, but would donate to the cause if
> you're serious (and acutally want them!).  16 or 32 Megs of ram,
> on-board video/IDE, and I can probably scrounge 1-2 Gig IDE drives for
> them if necessary.  I even have a couple of spare power supplies for
> them.  I also have lots of IBM 2G narrow SCSI drives (full height 3
1/2
> inch), if anyone has controllers...
>
> ...oh, and you can have any of my 486 hardware you want, too...I've
even
> got a system with VLB SCSI RAID (dual IBM 2Gig drives in a RAID-1
> mirror), that was my web server (based on LRP, and running thttpd)
until
> I moved my office.  Woo-Hoo!
>
> Should we have a contest for the oldest/cheesiest hardware with linux
> currently installed?  Anyone got any working 386 stuff?  486-sx?  I
> actually bit the bullet and pitched a bunch of ancient machines when I
> moved, or I'd be in the running with a 386sx system I used to test
> firewall software...
>
> Charles Steinkuehler
> charles at steinkuehler.net
>
>
>
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