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I'm about to buy 20 of these bad boys in the hopes of setting up a linux cluster. Do I need to have a hard drive in each of them or can I somehow run one machine as a host and still access the processing power of the other machines while they are networked in?
If I have to buy 20 drives this won't be worth it to me. I'd like to find a way around it, if possible.
I want to make this 20 core 2 duo cluster because my life is pretty empty atm and this will distract me from all those lovely suicidal thoughts :^)
How fast can I get this thing to go if I figure it all out?
just create a liveCD distro that automatically mounts an NFS partition
Hook up with that guy who has too many flashdrives.
>>53683202
Kek
>>53683158
I can buy 20 flash drives. Do you think it will affect the performance if the data is coming from a usb port instead of a sata connection?
>>53683096
PXE boot is what you're looking for. or, a network boot.
You can also use a flash drive.
>>53683158
>20 CDs spinning simultaneously
>NAS bottlenecked by maxed out network switch
K
>>53683096
Also to answer your question, without the model of CPU let's make a guess that it's a Core 2 Duo E6400 which gets a passmark score of 1,298. Multiply that 20 and you get 25,960, or a little more than twice that of a i7-6700k.
>>53683322
it might be faster depending on usb specs
>>53683344
you're right 300mb/s+ scsi raid 0 on a server is a shit compared to 10mb/s ide ..............................
you really have to consider your application requirements, OP. Most HPC applications don't use the disk a lot.
When you get bored of it mail me one.
>>53683322
Should be alright
So what kind of stuff could you run on such a cluster?
>>53683373
>passmark score of 1,298
Have these scores always been this low or do they lower them when a new round of processors get released?
just to be sure, you realize you'll have to use software designed for clusters?
on the other hand, $280 for some beowulf fun doesn't sounds bad at all, even if even if monte carlo will be everything it'll be ever used for.
>>53683784
A cluster fuck, I'd imagine.
>>53685258
Ba dum tsss
OP here. Turns out they are only pentium dual cores. I still bought ten because fuck it I want to make a beowulf cluster and these are cheaper than raspberry pis. Installing ubuntu on the main one right now.
>>53686027
Pentium dual core or pentium D?
>>53686044
pentium dual core e2180
