Uses for a beowulf cluster?

[Richie Bielak]

Shachar Tal wrote:

[...]

[...] I prefer the following scenario: each user logs in to a random
> (for the argument's sake) node, and does his work there. No interaction is
> needed for most of the work (pine, gcc, mathematica, flex, yacc, etc.),
> maybe sharing memory would be fine, but I suspect swapping pages to a
> local hard drive is a bit less expensive than shared memory across a
> 100Mb/s network.

A network of machines with NFS and automounting of home directories
should do this. You don't need Beowulf.

...richie


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