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madmango
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 Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 11:32 am Post subject: Yummy nut clusters. |
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Righto. I've set up my yummy server with gentoo. The actual hardware sucks, I got it for free after my school closed its doors for the last time; it's an AMD-K6-2 500 mhz with laughable amounts of ram.
So i set it up as an ftp server, samba server and domain controller, home-network webserver, dns cacher, dhcp server, firewall, SQL server, and Unreal-Tournament dedicated server machina.
Needless to say, I'm short on computing power. Although this is solely for home network use (less than 10 clients at once) I can already feel the effects of stretching the computing power with me as the single user.
But I have about five of these boxes.
I want to cluster. I just think it would be cool to say to my friends "Hey, I've got a 2500mhz cluster running in my closet" and I need the extra computing power. However, I'm not sure of the software packages required to do so, or even the topology behind the stuff. Do I need hard drives for everybody? Or can I just run the server processes off a main box and the slaves lend their computing time? I'd perfer not to have to use up all my old hard drives, but I will si que tengo.
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 11:38 am Post subject: |
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Try reading this You'll have all you need there  |
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madmango
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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Wow, thankz0rz.
Umm... do i emerge openmosix-user on the master or the slave nodes?
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| Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 1:00 am Post subject: Re: Yummy nut clusters. |
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| madmango wrote: | | I want to cluster. I just think it would be cool to say to my friends "Hey, I've got a 2500mhz cluster running in my closet" |
Now that's a proper geek attitude. Trust your technolust  Good luck!
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| Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 7:55 am Post subject: |
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Here's from the guide...
| Quote: | In order for the cluster to migrate processes, a few user-land binaries need to be installed. Additionally, an openMosix server needs to be started in order for a node to join a cluster and fully utilize the openMosix kernel. To get the aforementioned binaries and files type:
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So i think you must install openmosix-user in all of the nodes, i think that the server won't need it. So good luck with your experimenting. Let us know the results afterwards |
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madmango
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This may take a few days; I'm trying to set up software raid on the same server at the same time.
I think I've got the raid mostly set up now, I just need to re-arrange the order of the drives, move over the boot partition, edit grub files, and reboot.
Then I've got to configure the openmosix kernel and emerge everything else.
Will update.
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I'm having trouble setting up the thing for network booting.
I've got my client's bootprom to pull an IP and 'get' a file, but I get this message:
recieved 000kb, sorted 000kb, invoking bootstrap
E3e: Can't load from a RAM disk
I think that was the gist of it, at least. I've got no idea where the problem is, and I've double checked everything.
Any ideas?
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