Subject: i386 home Cluster Questions
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From: =?Windows-1252?Q?Vir=E1gh_Barnab=E1s?= <bhs@ludens.elte.hu>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/11/2002 13:04:29
Is it possible to have the following configuration :

2 PCs:
1 1600+MHz server, with 80 GB HDD,
1 200 MHz diskless client

It's ok to boot the diskless client from FDD or CD, but! Is it possible to
create some kind of cluster of them, the folowing way:
- if the diskless client runs out of memory, or it's CPU is too busy, the
next lunched aplication to run on the server (fe.: X aplications, while the
X server is on the dl. client).
- Also, if the server runs some CPU intensive aplication (like
ray-traceing), to lunch other applications on the dl. client.
- And also to move some of the localy started application from one PC to the
other, while it's running?
- And to join in new clients, to boost computing, and program execution?

In the above situation, some way this cluster would act as one big(ger) PC,
with several terminals, and shareing the same disk space. (Maybe with the
exceptions of the system config files).

I saw some files in the ftp:// ..../i386/parallel diretory. Would they do
the job? And how? How to configure them? How to use them?