Re: Beowulf at SIUC?

[Chester <chester@langin.com>]

My adviser is steering me towards doing simulations of fault-
tolerant strategies for multiprocessing.  (What if a node
has a hardware failure?  What if a node has an operating
system failure?  What if a connection fails?) My impression
right now is that a Beowulf system would work nicely for this.
However, I remember now reading about another Beowulf that had
two ports per node, so I agree with you on this issue.

I've only glanced at Mosix.  It does not seem to be open source.
I don't want to just be an installer of what other people do.  I
want to do things myself.  :-)

I am wondering about the possibility of having a Beowulf in the
math department and another Beowulf in the CS department that
communicated with each other.  Right now I'm just playing with
ideas.  I have permission to contact the math department 
professors and I still need to contact two CS professors who
want a cluster.  Their opinions may overrule any of my
current ideas.  Who is LJ?  Where do I get 4 port network cards
and how much do they cost?  I think departments will have 
old PC's laying around, but not this type of network card.
I think maybe I should ask for funding of the network cards in
order to "recycle" old PC's.

--Chester Langin------------------------------------------------
<http://www.cs.siu.edu/~langin>      <mailto:chester@langin.com>
The statement "Any statement is a paradox or it isn't" is false.
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On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Sean /The RIMBoy/ wrote:

> On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Chester wrote:
> 
> > It brings up the interesting possibility of having clusters of
> > computers at different locations, which could then be networked:
> > A multi-bodied Beowulf!  I'll read up to see how this could be 
> > feasible.
> 
> Here's what I can fill you in on.  
> 
> Beowulf is very network intensive.  Running it across a distributed net is
> usually not done... at least I have not heard where people are running it
> distributed.  The Los Alamos cluster used 4 port network cards and
> have connected all the computers in some sort of "cube" configuration...
> LJ has details on the specifics of the cube.  
> 
> If you are wanting to run distributed, I would suggest mosix:
> 
> www.mosix.org
> ...

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