...and is it straight-forward?
We have 4 Sun Blade workstations (running Solaris 10) that are rarely used, so we were wondering about putting them into a cluster to give us a something for processing large jobs.
Has anyone done this sort of thing before? And is it quite simple to do?
Is any additional software required, or could it be achieved with some sort of script?
Thanks,
Mark.
> OK, so i want to form a 'grid' with our 4 SunBlades.
>
> Is this possible with software or scripting?
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Ok,
You can use either the Globus toolkit or even easier is Sun's Grid Engine.
Find links to both at
http://www.ilkda.com/
look under grid,
alan
Thanks for your reply Alan.
I assume the sarcasm is because i'm trivialising a rather complex issue?
Apologies, but i thought it migtht be simple to utilise the processing power of unused machines using some scripting, as things like SETI@home just use a screensaver to harness cpu time.
Anyway, thanks for the link.
Cheers,
Mark.
Mark,
I test drove SUN Grid Engine some time back and I don't recall it being that difficult to configure. It will allow you assign one server as a master and the others as slaves. When jobs are submitted it will distribute it out to the slave machines. Machines can be put into and pulled out of the grid at will.
Grid Engine (Somewhat Seti features) needs to have a client installed on it to allow it to receive data from mothership. It also has the feature to schedule jobs to be sent out.
> I assume the sarcasm is because i'm trivialising a
> rather complex issue?
Nope, I was just EXTREMELY bored when I wrote that, that's all.
Sorry if I offended, it was not meant.
> Anyway, thanks for the link.
Sure, just remember that in order to use a cluster you're software should be made "cluster" aware, otherwise you're just wasting cycles.
alan
