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Re: [LUG] Beowulfed LTSP?

 

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Grant Sewell wrote:
> Since I thought about this I've come to realise that I will potentially
> have the ability to play about with this in the near future.  We have
> just taken delivery of 200 or so "out of commission" Dell GX270s (I
> believe)... all in relatively good working order.  There has been
> discussion in the staff room of setting a bunch of them up in a cluster
> for the benefit of those doing "animation courses".  I may well be
> running a BTEC National Diploma module next year on network management,
> so LTSP could fit nicely in there.
> 
> I appreciate that the original idea of LTSP was that the clients were
> low-specced machines, and I can fully see where you're going on the law
> of diminishing returns thing... but with "average" machines, set up as
> medium clients (personally I think they should be "thin clients",
> "podgy clients" and "fat clients"... which would leave a standard
> "Windows XP + Server2003" setup with a name like "obese clients", but
> that's just me :D), they could contribute a portion to the processing
> power of the LTSP server, should it be set up in a cluster, could they
> not?
> 
> Grant.
> 


Careful..... Dell GX270's went through a bad patch in production (we had
a bolt load at Torbay Council which had to have the mobos swapped out).
I guess these where "Gifted" machines ... I could be being very cynical
here but their may be a reason why they are gifted ......

I think you meant clinically obese or is that reserved for Vista ?

For students tinkering around with the concept I'm sure that this would
be fine. As far as animation is concerned I'm not sure how your
application would interface to the cluster.


But for cluster research purposes I guess any spec of cluster machine
would at least allow a test of the concept. Just don't try running them
across a 10Mbps hub ;-)


Tom.


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