Clustering

[John Wendel]

Ingemar Nilsson wrote:
> "Brian D. McGrew" <brian at visionpro.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>I've got multiple Fedora (FC3) boxes deployed and I want to turn them
>>into a compute cluster for compiling.  What are my options for doing
>>this, preferably in a free manner?
> 
> 
> You want to use the cluster to build programs? In theory, you might be able
> to use OpenMosix to make the cluster look like one big computer, but I have
> never heard of anyone building a cluster to compile programs. Clusters are
> ususally built to run compute-intensive scientific computing applications.
> 
> With a properly constructed build system, you could use several processors
> on a single computer with multiple processors to speed up the
> compiling. Use make with the -j flag, as in
> 
> make -j N
> 
> where N = number of processors + 1
> 
> Regards
> Ingemar
> 


Not a general purpose cluster solution, but you might be interested in

http://distcc.samba.org/

Regards,

John