Re: heterogeneous clusters?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron J. Grier" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 9:53 PM
Subject: Re: heterogeneous clusters?


> On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 08:33:40PM -0400, Robert F. Schaefer wrote:
> > Anyone working with clusters of machines that don't happen to have the
> > same architecture, or older hardware like sun3/hp300/VAX?
>
> yup.  I have a pile of DECStations, sparcs, alphas, a few vaxen, an
> hp300, SGIs...  since getting racks I actually have a chance of getting
> them all up and running, and I even have a prototype application I'd
> like to run.  it's just the management bit I haven't figured out yet.

Sounds like you're in a similar position to me. I'm thinking of placing boxs
in strategic locations throughout the house, and running a distributed
temperature-management app...  ^_^

What dos your propotype do?

Bob