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Re: [PLUG] distributing work
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On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Kevin Brosius wrote:
> How well this performs depends heavily on the job type and the mix of
> machines involved.
Note that OpenMOSIX is *not* a good solution for a build farm ("make"
usually kicks off a number of small jobs that run far too quickly to take
advantage of OM). If you're trying to create a build farm look at distcc
(front-ended by ccache), and there are a few parellelized versions of make
out there.
> It's easier to setup than a Beowulf though, because
> it's a kernel patch plus some utils and system setup. Beowulf was a lot
> more painful, as I recall.
It doesn't have to be. Check out http://freshmeat.net/projects/warewulf
(from the same guy that heads up the cAos Linux distribution).
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