Re: Need to build a cluster, advice required

It sounds like you would be better off looking at a beowulf type cluster.
http://www.clustermonkey.net and www.linuxhpc.org both have good information
and starting points for you.

--Donald

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openmosix-general-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org [mailto:openmosix-
> general-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Mr Gabriel
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 10:25 AM
> To: Mark Mackey
> Cc: openmosix-general-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
> Subject: Re: [openMosix-general] Need to build a cluster, advice required
> 
> Thanks for the answer, I appreciate that. What if I have a transcode
> program, that is actually designed to be parrallelised? *excuse the made
> up word! But you get what I mean!*
> 
> 
> On 04/09/07, Mark Mackey <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 	Hiya.
> 
> 	I'm not completely sure that openMosix is what you want in this
> case. oM lets a cluster of computer look sort-of-like one big
> multiprocessor machine with lots of interprocessor latency. It provides
> multiprocessing capability on the level of enabling individual processes
> to migrate to different CPUs in the cluster. What it won't do for you is
> parallelise an existing non-parallel process.
> 
> 	So, if you set up a 10-computer oM cluster, it won't let you
> transcode a DVD 10 times faster. It might in theory let you transcode 10
> DVDs in parallel, but in practise transcoding is quite I/O intensive so
> you'd get much better throughput just running the machines individually
> and letting each one work on its own DVD.
> 
> 	Mark.
> 
> 	Mr Gabriel wrote:
> 
> 		I need to build a cluster of which I'm going to use to
> transcode DVD content, into VCD content. I've searched for some howtos,
> but nothing. Any ideas, and pointers would be appreciated.
> 
> 
> ________________________________> 
> 
> 	--
> 	Dr Mark Mackey
> 	Cresset BioMolecular Discovery
> 


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