Grid computing

[Dennis Kaarsemaker]

On wo, 2005-11-23 at 09:45 +0100, Leen Toelen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have some very big calculations to do (CPU-intensive, not
> data-intensive), taking weeks on even the fastest servers (3.5Ghz, 4GB
> RAM). I would like to build a grid to speed things up, because the
> jobs can be easily parallellized. There is a plethora of software to
> do this, but what is your opinion. Being completely open-source is one
> requirement, and I would like to run it on ubuntu machines.

MPICH 1 is available from Ubuntu, MPICH 2 installs just fine.
If you really want to go grid instead of cluster, the Globus toolkit
installs like a charm (use their debian installer).

Both are completely open source, but glibus does require a non-free java
runtime.
-- 
Dennis K.
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