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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: puremind on October 28, 2003, 01:48:00 AM

Title: Amiga Beowulf supercomputer could it be done ????
Post by: puremind on October 28, 2003, 01:48:00 AM

I have some Amiga 1200's siting around at home doing nothing So I had this bran wave what if  I could set up a Beowulf using the Amiga 1200  say about 100 to 300 of them all link together to make one supper AMIGA. So what do guy's think could it be done with the Amiga could you build a Beowulf supercomputer Amiga ???????

Title: Re: Amiga Beowulf supercomputer could it be done ????
Post by: Seehund on October 28, 2003, 02:06:54 AM

If you run an OS with an available (Beowulf) clustering app, I don't see what could theoretically stop you.

Of course, buying one single modern PC would probably be more (cost-)efficient than 300 vanilla A1200s... :)

Title: Re: Amiga Beowulf supercomputer could it be done ????
Post by: Panthro on October 28, 2003, 02:25:46 AM

 :-D LOL :-D

Dont know about cost effective the hiar loss treatment needed after using a PC with WinBlows might not be too cheap to treat.... :-o

you could do a render farm using 1200's thats cool
you can even do it with parnet from memory :hammer:

can anyone set me right on that? :rtfm:

Title: Re: Amiga Beowulf supercomputer could it be done ????
Post by: Argo on October 28, 2003, 04:36:26 AM

Wait!
When did we become Slashdot?

Can I make a Beowulf cluster of these?

Title: Re: Amiga Beowulf supercomputer could it be done ????
Post by: N7VQM on October 28, 2003, 05:14:29 AM

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Panthro wrote:
 
Dont know about cost effective the hiar loss treatment needed after using a PC with WinBlows might not be too cheap to treat...

Did I miss something?  How did we get from Beowulf clusters to Windows?  As I recall, Beowulf is for clustering Linux.

Title: Re: Amiga Beowulf supercomputer could it be done ????
Post by: asian1 on October 28, 2003, 03:56:02 PM

Hello
When I ask Mellanox about creating BeoWulf cluster
using AmigaTwo G5 or Pegasos3 G5, they said that
it is impossible to create it because lack of
driver. Their driver is only for OS X, Darwin
BSD PowerPC, and Linux X86.
Is it possible to port the driver to Linux PowerPC
or AOS4 or MOS?
I hope the cost of Peg3 / Amiga2 is cheaper than
Apple G5 machines.

Title: Re: Amiga Beowulf supercomputer could it be done ????
Post by: mikeymike on October 28, 2003, 03:58:10 PM

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I have some Amiga 1200's siting around at home doing nothing So I had this bran wave what if I could set up a Beowulf using the Amiga 1200 say about 100 to 300 of them all link together to make one supper AMIGA. So what do guy's think could it be done with the Amiga could you build a Beowulf supercomputer Amiga ???????

Yes.  But why would you want to?  It would probably be the slowest distributed computing setup ever created.

Title: Re: Amiga Beowulf supercomputer could it be done ????
Post by: mikeymike on October 28, 2003, 03:59:51 PM

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When I ask Mellanox about creating BeoWulf cluster
using AmigaTwo G5 or Pegasos3 G5, they said that
it is impossible to create it because lack of
driver.

I'm not surprised.  Writing a driver for real hardware is difficult enough, let alone interfacing imaginary hardware with real hardware!