BTW, there is a list of Freely available cluster applications here (Cluster Tweaks):
http://tweaks.clustermonkey.net/index.php/Open/Freely_Available_Cluster_Applications If anyone knows of other applications, please add them. This is community wiki so if you want to contribute, please create and account and have at it. -- Doug > Thanks all for your responses, > > I built my engine because I imagined it, and wanted to see if it was > possible. Problem, I don't know much about HPC apps, and tasks need > to be coded up for my platform (I tried to keep it as portable as > possible, but it has a some required hooks, etc). So it was as much > as I could do to come up with a test job... the engine does work > though, pic (this is a memory dump, not a render): > http://www.cyberdelix.net/media/retro_fractal_by_lsi.gif > > Each row of numbers was calculated by a node on the grid (although, > because this is home HPC, the grid only had two nodes). > > Ah yes, so it does have a little eye candy I guess but fractals are a > bit gratuitous, I was hoping for a more serious application. I > considered hunting for primes or somesuch... but I'm not a > mathematician or scientist and I don't understand what, for example, > the sieve of Eratosthenes is meant to be outputting, so writing code > to run it is very difficult! > > This is especially problematic because, as is noted below, a demo is > an important part of a proposal. > > I think I need to get a computational science degree, or engage a > mathematician or scientist, to progress my project. I was hoping > this would be my HAL 9000 but it turns out to need more than an > engine, it needs apps too... > > Thanks for the bistro tip Jim, nice one.. :) > > Stu > > On 16 Sep 2010 at 15:40, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote: > >> > From: beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org [mailto:beowulf- > boun...@beowulf.org] On Behalf Of Douglas Eadline > >> > As a builder of some cheapo home clusters I would say that >> > software development (owning the reset switch is nice), >> > problem development (staging a small version of a problem >> > before you scale it up), and running real codes (most >> > HPC apps don't scale that well in any case). >> >> If you were writing proposals to scale up to hundreds of nodes, >> especially if you are self-funding the proposal work, then having >> demonstrated it on a cluster at all might lend credibility to your >> proposal, especially if the proposal evaluators are not >> cluster-afficionados (so they question the applicability of clusters >> in general, and are ignorant of the scaling issues) > >> > Of course I'm still trying to build my HAL 9000 clone. > >> I don't think you want to do that, Doug... > > > --- > Stuart Udall > stuart a...@cyberdelix.dot net - http://www.cyberdelix.net/ > > --- > * Origin: lsi: revolution through evolution (192:168/0.2) > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > -- Doug -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
