[Beowulf] [owner-chemistry@ccl.net: CCL: Wireless cluster]

[Luc Vereecken]

Hi John,

If the application is sufficiently coarsed-grained, i.e. sufficiently 
embarassingly parallel, it will work imo. It will work more like a 
grid environment than a cluster, but for coursegrained work that is enough.
The main problem might be maintenance and installation: with a 
wireless connection it is not adviced to have a pxc-boot install or 
NFS shared directories. If all nodes are fat and selfreliant, I would 
go for it if the situation demands such a setup.

Nonetheless: 8 nodes is not that much. I still advice to double check 
if there is no way to hardlink them, as having a 1Gb ethernet or even 
a 100Mb wire connection has many benefits over a (possibly 
unreliable) wireless connection.

Luc Vereecken


At 03:35 PM 3/24/2006, Eugen Leitl wrote:

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>From: "John McKelvey jmmckel%x%attglobal.net" <owner-chemistry at ccl.net>
>Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:28:57 -0500
>To: "Leitl, Eugen -id#3h6-" <eugen at leitl.org>
>Subject: CCL: Wireless cluster
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>Sent to CCL by: John McKelvey [jmmckel!^!attglobal.net]
>Cheers!
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>Please don't laugh, or maybe this is so funny [ridiculous?] that you'll
>get a good laugh, and it will make your day!
>
>Anyway, I want to build a small linux cluster [6-8 total processors] but
>don't have a lot of  cooling in one place.  Running wires would not be
>practical, if not impossible  Now, the application is extremely
>coarse-grain, and only a very, very small amount of data gets moved
>about once initialization of a job is done..  Can it be done "wireless?"
>
>Please share your laughs...
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>Cheers..
>John McKelvey
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