Clustering

[Gilboa Davara]

On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 09:53 -0800, Brian D. McGrew wrote:
> Good morning,
> 
> I've got multiple Fedora (FC3) boxes deployed and I want to turn them
> into a compute cluster for compiling.  What are my options for doing
> this, preferably in a free manner?
> 
> -brian
> 
> Brian D. McGrew { brian at visionpro.com || brian at doubledimension.com }
> --
> > Those of you who think you know it all,
>   really annoy those of us who do! 
> 
> 

Clustering is a huge over-kill for build framing. (Plus, you'll network
backbone will suffer due to the massive gcc/make process migrations)

Id suggest you use distcc instead.
Project page: http://distcc.samba.org/
DAG RPMs: http://dag.wieers.com/packages/distcc/

It can be easily configured and maintained.
And, due to its compile-centric design, it uses reasonably-low network
(Fast Ethernet is more then enough) bandwidth and gives out almost
linear increase in performance.

Gilboa