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Re: Amiga Beowulf supercomputer could it be done ????
« 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.
 

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Re: Amiga Beowulf supercomputer could it be done ????
« Reply #1 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!