Question about building a cluster

[rescue]

I work in little company that has a bout 20 comupters in office use, all running MDV 2005LE. Some machines are quite old and slow. Is wise / worth to build a cluster on these computers?

 

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[Phantom]

What's the goal of your cluster ?

[rescue]

What's the goal of your cluster ?

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Can I get the speed improvements on slower machines?

[adamw]

No, you can't build a cluster and then still use each machine in the cluster individually. Clustering is more about using a group of systems together to do very computationally intensive tasks - think supercomputer.

[rescue]

No, you can't build a cluster and then still use each machine in the cluster individually. Clustering is more about using a group of systems together to do very computationally intensive tasks - think supercomputer.

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Hmm ok, but what can I do speed up a bit the slower computers. I have like 3-4 A64-s 3400+ with 512M DDR and they are doing the same job as 1.8G celeron with 256M DDR.

[adamw]

You could use them as terminal servers and convert the slow machines into thin clients, maybe?

Edited June 1, 2005 by adamw