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robbat2 ([personal profile] robbat2) wrote2002-08-08 07:09 pm
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As of today at TechBC, we now have a way to convert all of the labs to a giant supercomputer cluster, that doesn't disturb the hard drives of the existing systems at all, and gives us a lot of power.

Just slip bootable cds into the machines we want to use and reboot them. The ISO image i've set up is only 8mb, but it will probably get a little bit larger with some more useful tweaks and utilities, and since it's that small, we are going to put it on mini-cds while they are cheap. We just want enough to boot up the majority of a lab in a single pass.

The cluster master we have is only a lowly pentium2 350mhz, but it was all IS was prepared to give us to wipe out for the cluster idea we wanted. Some of the researchers are willing to pool some money for a decent cluster master, so then we will have a really uber cluster.

If we just start up all of the labs stuff, that gives us 90 1.4 Ghz Athlons, plus 60 other machines (Mixed Pentium3 & Pentium2). That means we have at least 150 Ghz of power in total!