Hi John,
If the application is sufficiently coarsed-grained, i.e. sufficiently
embarassingly parallel, it will work imo. It will work more like a
grid environment than a cluster, but for coursegrained work that is enough.
The main problem might be maintenance and installation: with a
wireless connection it is not adviced to have a pxc-boot install or
NFS shared directories. If all nodes are fat and selfreliant, I would
go for it if the situation demands such a setup.
Nonetheless: 8 nodes is not that much. I still advice to double check
if there is no way to hardlink them, as having a 1Gb ethernet or even
a 100Mb wire connection has many benefits over a (possibly
unreliable) wireless connection.
Luc Vereecken
At 03:35 PM 3/24/2006, Eugen Leitl wrote:
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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:28:57 -0500
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Cheers!
Please don't laugh, or maybe this is so funny [ridiculous?] that you'll
get a good laugh, and it will make your day!
Anyway, I want to build a small linux cluster [6-8 total processors] but
don't have a lot of cooling in one place. Running wires would not be
practical, if not impossible Now, the application is extremely
coarse-grain, and only a very, very small amount of data gets moved
about once initialization of a job is done.. Can it be done "wireless?"
Please share your laughs...
Cheers..
John McKelvey
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