That sounds good, Lanman. It is imperative for me to learn patience (I want it right now!), but nevertheless, hopefully this thing will be going up and into SETI WU production sooner as opposed to later.Originally posted by: LANMAN
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Just like in the past threads, "This project is like a red wine; in time it will produce a great product."
I plan on marketing this rack and if it takes off most of the proceeds will be going into hardware and
power bills. We got to keep this thing current right?
No, each machine will function independently, and work on its own WU. They are calling it a Beowulf probably because it sounds cool, but it won't really be using any software (Mosix, PVM, MPI, or other libraries) that actually turns a bunch of systems into a virtual single system.Originally posted by: titanmiller
Will any hardware work (fast with slow)? And from what I understand it will distribute 1 WU among all of the computers in the racks instead of giving each one it's own to work on. Correct?
Originally posted by: jliechty
No, each machine will function independently, and work on its own WU. They are calling it a Beowulf probably because it sounds cool, but it won't really be using any software (Mosix, PVM, MPI, or other libraries) that actually turns a bunch of systems into a virtual single system.Originally posted by: titanmiller
Will any hardware work (fast with slow)? And from what I understand it will distribute 1 WU among all of the computers in the racks instead of giving each one it's own to work on. Correct?
Probably because I suggested one time that they use Mosix (a version of Linux that turns a bunch of computers into a virtual single cluster), but that would probably be a bit complex to install and maintain on a setup as large as we're going to have with the limited amount of time that the people running this can put in to it. They've got enough on their hands as it is, without some weird but cool software that requires months of learning thrown into the picture.Originally posted by: titanmiller
Ok, I thought I heard that somewhere. I wish I had something to donate.
Again, thank you to everybody envolved for all of your hard work.
Originally posted by: jliechty
You're doing a good job, Lanman et. al. Congrats on the great work and good luck for the future!
You would run one instance of SETI@Home for each processor. And no, AFAIK, there is no parallelized version of S@H, unfortunately.Originally posted by: chsh1ca
Is there a parallelized version of Seti@Home's client so that it could be run on multiple systems like that?
BTW, how many instances of Seti@Home would you run on a beowulf of 6 BP6 Celeron 550s?
I run two on my Athlon 1.2GHz at home, because I found that 1 linux Seti client took 4.8 hours / data unit, but running two side by side took 5.5 hours / 2 data units.
Originally posted by: jliechty
You would run one instance of SETI@Home for each processor. And no, AFAIK, there is no parallelized version of S@H, unfortunately.Originally posted by: chsh1ca
Is there a parallelized version of Seti@Home's client so that it could be run on multiple systems like that?
BTW, how many instances of Seti@Home would you run on a beowulf of 6 BP6 Celeron 550s?
I run two on my Athlon 1.2GHz at home, because I found that 1 linux Seti client took 4.8 hours / data unit, but running two side by side took 5.5 hours / 2 data units.
Originally posted by: devilsown
Hey guys,
i dont have the money...but i can get a good deal on all in one duron boards.....i think there @ 900-1100mhz....
$135 Canadian per board.....so if anybody wants some...tell me and i'll see if i can arrange to get some....just need to save some cash....
And I know there not celerys but i ran some numbers and you could get 1 wu per cpu done in 7hrs...
just thought i'd mention it
devilsown
Originally posted by: Shuxclams
Now thats a cool idea... dunno about flash, If we had a directory structure like "/usr/local/seti/seti01", "/usr/local/seti/seti02" etc.. we could create a script to "cat /usr/local/seti/seti01/state.sah > seti01.txt" and grep the "progress=64.31%" into something MySQL and have a PHP frontend... I think...
Originally posted by: chsh1ca
Originally posted by: Shuxclams
Now thats a cool idea... dunno about flash, If we had a directory structure like "/usr/local/seti/seti01", "/usr/local/seti/seti02" etc.. we could create a script to "cat /usr/local/seti/seti01/state.sah > seti01.txt" and grep the "progress=64.31%" into something MySQL and have a PHP frontend... I think...
I've already got a simple bash script to do this for my two seti clients at home. It would be trivial to do it as a cron job and have it update a MySQL database. If you need someone to do up the PHP as well, I happen to do both PHP/ASP + SQL development for a living, and I wouldn't mind spending a few minutes workin on it.
I could even have the same cron job run some PHP scripts to generate graphs and etc., given enough time...
If the idea is still floating about, just give me a shout at chsh1ca@yahoo.ca, and I'll contribute what I can.
Originally posted by: LANMAN
02/28/2003 4:23 AM :
I'll try and break away from work and pick up the second rack tomorrow.
--LANMAN