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Grant Sewell writes: > On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 06:16:32 +0000 > Terry Hill wrote: >> > Hi, I just recently aquired board and processor. Also I'm in the >> > middle of putting my new machine together in my new place. >> > Can anyone tell me the easiest way of clustering these boards >> > together please?<snip> >> Hi Jon, >> I'm not 100% sure if I'm reading you right here, it's also 5:49am as I >> type and I'm coming to the end of a shift here so forgive me if I get >> the wrong end of the stick and proceed to beat myself over the head >> with it. >> If you are talking about two motherboards and respective "stuff" in >> one box sharing RAM, hard disk and operating system, this just isnt >> possible really. The physical connectivity alone wont be there. >> Motherboards are generally designed with the idea of plugging in the >> stuff needed to run one instance of an operating system with a fixed >> set of internal resources. The closest you could get is somehow to >> put the two motherboards inside a single box with thier own individual >> operating systems housed on thier own boot devices, and then share the >> resourses back and forth using a method of viewing both desktops (such >> as a switch to swap which motherboard is connected to the screen or a >> VNC variant). >> >> Clustering is usually more than one computer (however they are housed) >> connected together via a network of some sort with one of the >> computers used to distribute chunks of a workload to the slave >> devices. They "do" the work and then send back results and ask if >> there are any more chunks ad infinitum. >> >> I have seen a few examples where these clustered devices have been >> built into a single unit - take many modern "blade" styled servers for >> instance. I've also seen a couple of natty home made boxes containing >> more than one computer (motherboards and all). >> >> Chances are though, you'll be mixing and matching what you have. >> Perhaps settle for a couple of boxes and a single screen connected >> with a keyboard/mouse/video switch? >> >> Hope this helps, >> Tel. > I have seen "motherboards" that sit on a PCI or ISA card (and hence > draw their power from the PCI or ISA slot). They're pretty minimal > systems, but come with network sockets on the back plate. These could > be used to build a small cluster that actually resides within another > computer. > > Grant > Cheers, guys. I guess what you mention here is what I'm after really Grant...where have you seen those?, do you know where to get them from?... I expect I'll settle for a L.A.N and a KVM switch when it comes down to brass tacks though. Cheers, joN -- 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