A distributed front end for compilation/gcc is nice. However, this idea has been implemented before, and in a more general fashion.
PPMAKE work as a distributed front end for GNU make. This works brilliantly (I used it as a part of my MSc thesis), and distributes arbitrary compilation work in arbitrary languages to a preconfigured list of hosts.
I remember using a cluster of approximately 30 hosts, this worked good. But required a fast master.
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A distributed front end for compilation/gcc is nice. However, this idea has been implemented before, and in a more general fashion.
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PPMAKE work as a distributed front end for GNU make. This works brilliantly (I used it as a part of my MSc thesis), and distributes arbitrary compilation work in arbitrary languages to a preconfigured list of hosts.
I remember using a cluster of approximately 30 hosts, this worked good. But required a fast master.
This is available as a package for at least Suse.
Requires PVM to be installed, though. But this is usually no problem.