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Mandrake Announces Turn-Key Clustering Distribution

Posted by timothy on from the clic-and-run dept.

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."

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  1. Energy Usage? by Steve+Franklin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I always figured the problem with a home supercomputer would be the electric bill. Am I wrong about that?

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    1. Re:Energy Usage? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      All depends on if you are in winter and happen to heat with 'lectricity. Think of it from an entropy standpoint; electric coils turn highly ordered 50/60 cycle juice into a random sea of heat energy. Using a fleet of CPU's to do the conversion can at least allow you to have some fun in the process.

  2. Re:No SCSI by ltwally · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm just curious how many super-computers out their have fancy 3D grafix cards, and only run on IDE drives...? I think may-haps I'll wait for version 2.. just my two cents.. your mileage may vary

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  3. Re:No SCSI by SquadBoy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You are , of course, right. But they also have a 3D card included in those specs. Seems odd to me. I'm thinking those must be the specs for the master node. (It has been a long time since I've thought about clusters not sure if that is the right term but I think you know what I mean) In any case it looks like someone is confused/wrong on this.

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  4. Re:No SCSI by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    hehe, wrong again. The 3d-cards is for fast 3d-rendering (doh) - they use the program Netjuggler to utilize opengl on multiple machines.

  5. The real point by compjma · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think you're all missing the most important question. When are we going to see video games for super clusters?