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On Tuesday 24 June 2008 00:27, Grant Sewell wrote: > Hi all, > > Whilst watching a foundation degree student's presentation on their > project - building a Linux beowulf cluster - the idea struck me... what > a wonderful way to generate enough processing power for an LTSP server. > > I know there are some people on the list who have a bit of LTSP > experience, so I was just wondering if (in their experience) a beowulf > cluster would actually work well as an LTSP server? If it were to > work, it could even benefit from being configured as a COWs (Cluster of > Workstation) - so the LTSP server cluster would also be able to pull > processing power from the idle workstations connecting to it! This should be a more generic thing - not just LTSP: I have a dream where you can start with a cluster of 1 machine and add or remove machines from that cluster at will and software adjusts to use whats available. This would be great for anyone - but especially business where there are currently several fault lines to growth preventing smooth expansion (or contraction). SQL queries running slow? Dig out those old machines from the store cupboard and plug into the network and turn them on, enter the cluster password to join the cluster and away we go. Queries done, wasting power? Click the off buttons. Ditto for apache, etc etc. None of this seems to me to be beyond current capabilities. I do like the idea of having a COW man! Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html