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Mandrake Announces Turn-Key Clustering Distribution
joestar writes "According to their website, Mandrake and partners (Bull, INPG/INRIA...) have launched an 'easy-to-deploy easy-to-use Linux Clustering solution,' that has already been tested on a 40-node cluster. Of course, it's published under the GPL, comes with parallel applications, and is available for download as an ISO. It seems the project is financed by French government. It's great because I've always dreamed of having my own supercomputer at home."
Gotcha!
Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of these things?
OH WAIT! I CAN!
In college, really poor, need a flatscreen.
If it was financed by the French government, does this mean that Mandrake is going to become the Renault of the Linux world? Eww...
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES!
Great, now with my 15 386/486 systems sitting in the garage I can create something almost as powerful as this laptop I am currently using.
Why, for the love of god, why must you idiots always mention "a beowulf cluster". There should be an automated system to mod any post to -1 that contains the word beowulf.
"A BEOWULF CLUSTER!! (Score:-1, FUCKING RETARDED)"
How the hell is the very first response to the article redundant? HOW!? PLEASE TELL ME HOW!
No, it just means that at the slightest aggression from microsoft, Mandrake will wet its pants, fold like a wet towel, and become a pathetic collaborator in the OS war to try to curry favor with its latest set of overlords.
So I guess when you do something wrong it will tell you things like: "I fart in your general direction..." and most importantly "go away or I will taunt you a second time".
Now I can put those 8 486's to work and roughly have the power of a P2-300mhz and lower my heating bill all at once!
"...and build my own Beo^H^H^HCLIC cluster out of crappy Pentium II's and do something stupid like calculate PI to a googol digits, even though my power bill will probably be insane."
:)
Heh. If anybody calls you a dork, it's cos you earned it!
b) [Some Beowulf joke or another]
Finally a Beowolf cluster easy enough to build for everyone saying "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these..."
--- I wish I could hear the soundtrack to my life. That way I'd know when to duck.
That's the problem with the economy right now... there are too many of these government financed open source projects. How can we expect the markets to operate properly, products to sell, and jobs to be created, when communists like the French keep putting out competing products like this? Or those communists at the NSA, working on "secure Linux" when Microsoft had a perfectly good C4 security clearance for Win NT 4?
Fnord.
I can see it now. Microsoft continues to loose money due to the fact people are buying up XBoxes and modding them to run this.
Bill: What's going on here. Sales of the XBox have risen 500%, but I'm making no money because no one's buying software!!
MS Lackey: It's the French, sir.
Bill: What?! How so?
MS Lackey: Those Mandrake linux people released an ISO image of linux for the XBox, sir, and then they released clustering software. XBox supercomputing clusters are now springing up all over the place.
Bill: Quickly, we must couteract this. Launch a shared source initiative, and I want the records showing everyone who has puchased an XBOX without buying any games for it!
MS Lackey: Right away, sir.
Bill: Oh, and while you're at it, buy France, jail the government, and burn down the Mandrake offices. That'll teach them.