[aclug-L] Re: Aclug COOP Cluster?

[<tom@xxxxxxxxx>]

ok 486's are the lowest that will be in this cluster.  The only thing
I have to do now is find out how many amps the circuit breakers are in
that room.  I am thinking about using eprom's, and having diskless 
machines.  Well having local swap drives would improve preformence.  
What do you think?

I am going to have a machine monitor the network on the inside of the
cluster so we can see the network load.

On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Jonathan Hall wrote:

> I've got a few machines (486's and 386's) I'd be happy to donate to the
> cause under the condition that I don't ever have to deal with them again
> physically.  :-)
> 
> I know I have a 386 PS/2.... not sure if that's of much use (anyone have MCA
> NICs?).  I know I have some 486's... 486/66, 486/90- and probably some
> others.
> 
> One question might be... is it even worth using 386's on such a cluster?  It
> might be best to set a range for CPUs, so we don't have slow ones hurting
> performance of the cluster. :-)  I might suggest a 486DX/33 or 486DX/40 as
> the minimum.  And if you have slower machines you want to use, we can gut
> them and put faster guts inside (I can donate some)  :-)
> 
> I have more donatable guts than I do full computers, anyway.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 10:28:07PM -0600, tom@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > With all of the talk about clusters I have decided to move all of my junk
> > 386/486/pent machines out of my room at home into a room at work and make 
> > a cluster.  
> > 
> > I was also thinking of making it a coop cluster.  I had planed on
> > letting people add to this cluster.  I am not sure about the network that
> > I am going to use.  I don't have any extra hubs laying around, but I do 
> > have lots of cheap coax cable, and t's.  I have been looking around, and
> > I am going to run two coax networks, and bond them together to give it
> > 20mb/s.  I also have a bw quickcam that I am going to set up so people can
> > watch the machines on the net.  At this moment there is 128k isdn line at
> > the office.  This will be upgraded to adsl soon.  
> > 
> > As it sits now the cluster will be comprised of 2-386 3-486 1-pent.   I 
> > have a 486dx4120 that will be the gateway machine.  Most of these machines
> > are in pieces in my room at home, but I feel confident that I can put make
> > whole machines.  
> > 
> >  Let me know what you think? Do you have any old computer laying around 
> > that you would like to put to good use?  would like to add a computer the   
> > cluster?  I was going to give anyone who contributes to the cluster sudo 
> > access on the machines.  
> > 
> > 
> >                                     Thomas Bloom
> > 
> 
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