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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. Mandrake rocks by llama_flyer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I really like using mandrake so I wonder how easy it would be to cluster a bunch of mandrake boxes?

  2. ReTime drift by tomhudson · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    The main reason for time drift on your box is gaming - the PIC has its' timing changed from 18.9 ticks per second to 100, 1000, or 10,000 or more (Get Borlands' old turbo profiler and you can set the ticks per second yourself). Of course, when you stop the game, the time is only approximately reset.

    Boxes w/o games running on them usually don't gain or loose more than a few seconds per year, in my experience.