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#1 2011-04-04 02:15:11

mw007
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Clustered super computer desktop?

I've read different articles describing how to build a clustered supercomputer using spare machines laying around the house. This seems like a good idea, if you're building a Folding@Home machine, graphics rendering or something like that.

My question is this: would something like this also be useful for building a super everyday desktop? I'm wondering if the desktop environments can be built/compiled with this in mind?

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#2 2011-04-04 03:28:17

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Re: Clustered super computer desktop?

Super computers are useful for processing intensive tasks, but our everyday computers are now more than powerful enough to handle most of the tasks we use them for (browsing, chatting, etc.).

The important thing here is not processing power but latency, and clusters are by necessity pretty high on latency. You wouldn't want your DE partially running on some external computer, it doesn't do much processing, and the reduction in latency would be noticeable.

Farming out the compiling jobs etc. is much more beneficial, but that's not the job of the DE....


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#3 2011-04-04 04:17:01

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Re: Clustered super computer desktop?

Cool. That's pretty much what I thought. Thanks for the quick response smile

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#4 2011-04-04 05:11:36

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Re: Clustered super computer desktop?

I'm still trying to figure out how to get kdenlive to render on a cluster... If anyone has any ideas on that, feel free to point me in a suitable direction wink

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#5 2011-04-04 05:15:39

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Re: Clustered super computer desktop?

I think I read an article about some new open-source cluster software within the last week, but I can't find it again. The name might have been something like ?osol (I could be way off, and no, it wasn't anything to do with Solaris, afair).

Does anyone have any idea what I'm talking about?


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#6 2011-04-04 05:46:39

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Re: Clustered super computer desktop?

You don't mean oscar by any chance?

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#7 2011-04-04 12:44:13

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Re: Clustered super computer desktop?

JackH79 wrote:

You don't mean oscar by any chance?

Nope, but it was something very similar. I think the version number was pre-1.0, and I'm pretty sure that was not the home page.

Then again, I thought I had seen the article on Slashdot or Ars Technica, yet I can't find it on either, so maybe I've finally gone insane.


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#8 2011-05-03 21:19:21

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Re: Clustered super computer desktop?

Xyne wrote:

The name might have been something like ?osol

Comsol? I think you can run their soft on a cluster but ...

Maybe it was http://opencompute.org/ ?

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#9 2011-05-07 15:13:39

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Re: Clustered super computer desktop?

karol wrote:
Xyne wrote:

The name might have been something like ?osol

Comsol? I think you can run their soft on a cluster but ...

Maybe it was http://opencompute.org/ ?

That could be it. I don't recognize the website of either of those, but it was a while ago now and I only browsed for a couple of minutes.


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