[57North] Cluster

[Iain R. Learmonth]

On 12/02/14 14:45, Tom Jones wrote:
> Since then we have gone through the pile of machines, sorted the bad from
> the good, racked and gave hard drives to the good machines.
> 

I should point out, the "bad" machines haven't been deemed to be bad
yet, they just failed a quick visual inspection. I believe it may just
need some power for a bit to get the CMOS battery up and then they'll boot.

> [...]
> 
> 1. What will we use the cluster for?
>             - If we have a particular tool in mind, it might mean that we
> have to build the cluster in
>               a certain way.

I would like to parallelogramise tdpw. No IPC would be needed between
processes but a remote fork mechanism is necessary.

> 2. What OS should we use?
>             - I would like to use a BSD, I don't know  enough to
> demonstrate insanity on that
>               path.

FreeBSD would not prevent me from achieving my task. There is a Debian
GNU/kFreeBSD that we might look at if there is a FreeBSD based
clustering solution, just because we hate our lives and hacking on that
would make us want to live no more.

> 3. What task distribution libs/programming tools do we need.
> 

I believe Tony would be the expert here. There's a few frameworks for
writing parallelograms.

Iain.

P.S. I would like parallelogram to catch on as a new word for describing
highly parellelised programs.

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