Clustering

[Tony Nelson]

At 7:59 PM +0100 11/16/05, 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.
 ...

They're usually called "build farms".  Normally each computer is building
one executable for one target, and there are lots of targets and often lots
of executables, and slow builds.
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