[aclug-L] Re: Aclug COOP Cluster?

[<tom@xxxxxxxxx>]

I bought 25 eproms a while back, and I have access to a eprom writer, so I
would like to try to use them.  I am going to try to do something later
this week, or the this weekend.  



On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Jonathan Hall wrote:

> I've go t a few 40mb HDs that could be used for swap.  I've also got a bunch
> of 360k floppy drives that could be used to initiate a net boot (rather than
> using (E)EPROMs), and 360k floppies are easier to replace/change, altho
> they're also more likely to stop working... :-)
> 
> If/when you're ready to actually set this up, I'm happy to (schedule
> permitting) come help.  I've done a bit of playing with diskless
> workstations and netbooting... some experience that might come in handy.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 11:18:45PM -0600, tom@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > 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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