seti @ home on clusters?

[Chris Corney]

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Isn't that what the Distributed.net client and proxy do?  A "normal" beowulf

would be isolated from the rest of the network world, while the head runs
the
proxy, fetching keys as needed to distribute to nodes as they complete their

previous key.  I think this is a perfect example of a course grained task.
It does
not, however, test network performance at all as the keys are small and
transmission times are minimal compared to the time it takes to process
the key.

chris.corney@safeway.com
Computer Analyst
Canada Safeway Ltd.

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the company, blah, blah, blah.

Mark E Drummond wrote:

> Felix Rauch wrote:
> >
> > It's easy to use the SETI@home client on the cluster: Just start one
> > process per CPU on each machine...
>
> I was going to do the same for my Distributed.net code cracking efforts.
> I currently employ many workstations and servers but when I build my
> Beowulf in the fall I'll run the rc5des client on it. The only thing is,
> this is not a demonstration of the "network-parallel" features of
> Beowulf processing. Running a copy of the client on each machine has
> nothing to do with the Beowulf itself and could be done on any set of
> workstations.
>
> What would be interesting would be to have Distributed.net/SETI@Home
> clients that were rewritten using PVM/MPI or whatever so that the
> console node would (in the Distributed.net case) grab some keys and
> distribute them among the clients.
>
> --
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> Mark E Drummond                  Royal Military College of Canada
> drummond-m@rmc.ca                              Computing Services
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