Beowulf cluster

[Toastedlightly]

The situation is this. My school has a bunch (~100) old Pentium 233 computers that aren't being used. Does anyone think it would be worth my time to coax the school into letting me build the beowulf cluster?

BTW: I have never done a beowulf cluster and have no clue how. I would be doing it for the learning experiance.

 

[BlackMountainCow]

:beer🙁(bump for a very worthy cause)):beer:

 

[amdxborg]

Sounds like a great idea, hope someone can help out here! 😉

 

[Toastedlightly]

I just have to convince the schoool that i am using them for a good cause !

 

[JonB]

Whatever you do, don't ever mention the amount of power that it will use. A school system (if it is anything at all like our local school board) watches the electric bill very closely. I would advise that you only build a 10 node Beowulf first. They won't notice the bump in power usage. Once it is running and you find something useful for it to do, then add nodes.

 

[trevinom]

If you set it up to only crunch during regular hours, when they would be on anyways, there shouldn't be any dramatic increase in electric bills.


Every 5 233's would be about the equivalent to a 1 G machine...so it's the equivalent of 20 1G machines. That should be decent.