Building Your First Cluster?

An anonymous reader asks: "I'm interested in building a DIY cluster using Linux and will be using conventional Linux software. However, the number of possible ways to do this is huge. Aside from Beowulf, there's Mosix, OpenMosix, Kerrighed, Score, OpenSSI and countless others. Therein lies the problem. There are so many ways of clustering, development seems to be in fits and starts, most won't work on recent Linux kernels and there's no obvious way to mix-and-match. What have other people used? How good are the solutions out there?"

Don't sweat it ...

[tomhudson]

Try them all. After all, you just KNOW your first one's going to be a clusterf*ck.

Seriously, if you're going to take that route, you really should be prepared to invest the time in test-driving several different solutions.

Xboxen

[Anonymous Coward]

hella X-Boxes...

Re:Find the problem before trying to solve it

[Daxster]

Cluster need special software to take advantage of the disturbed computing.

Well, indeed, clusterf*cks might turn your distributed computing project into a disturbed one..

Imagine a...

[Anonymous Coward]

oh, wait, never mind.

Re:Whatever happened to...

[N. P. Coward]

It all came to a halt when they had 27 boxes [wikipedia.org] nicely stacked up... Some joker came along and painted primary colors on all the outside faces and this was irresistable to some other jokers who began moving the boxes around, making quite a tangle of all the cords.

Re:Rocks

[alc6379]

So would you say that Rocks Rocks?

Thanks... I'll be here all week!