Hello, I'm actually busy to develop an application to calculate the Mandelbrot fractals. I'm using a Beowulf cluster of three nodes and a master. I use MPICH as communication library.
In my application, I send one line of the complex plan to one node. Before that I must know which node are free to work. My question is: how must I handled the list of the free node? Must I each time that I will send a job to a node send a broadcast message to know which nodes are free; is it not a waste of communication time? or Must I handle a list (a file) of the nodes who are in status "working" or "free". Can someone give me informations about this aspect? Thanks for your help _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
