This week I have been mostly working on a cluster. A cluster is a group of computers that work together to perform a task. A node is a computer that is part of the cluster group, I started with two of them and I have three at the moment. My aim for the cluster was to have a virtual super computer on which to compile software and perform some other powerful tasks. I have got PVM to work but that was unable to run my PERL program on the cluster so I started with HeartBeat when my friend (Kz) suggested distcc, This is a program that distributes the compiling task across the network to computers with it installed on. This is just what I wanted for compiling the linux kernal as it should be faster with three computers working on it than one. The computers that I am using are an AMD Athlon 900Mhz, Intel PII 350Mhz and a Freescale PowerPC G3 350Mhz running Kubuntu 6.06 and Debian 4.0 on the latter two.
Lol.
you need to go dumpster diving and get some better computers! That’d speed things up way more.