I've started a little project in my home, it's a Debian 6 (squeeze) based Beowulf cluster! From donated and unused desktops I've made what is more or less just a small LAN network right now with partial Beowulf setup implemented. I'm still working on the OpenMPI stuff. As it is right now, I've got them all running Stanford's Folding at Home, getting mucho work units done 24/7.

If you would like to assist me and know anything about clustering or Linux in general, I'm still kind of a noob at this and could use the help. I may post questions here for that reason, if anyone can help me, a bunch of calc programmers will probably have the answer if I can't find it on my own!

Thanks in advance to anyone who helps me with the project.

Thanks! It's good to be back! By the way if anyone wants to join the project and my team feel free to do so:

http://folding.stanford.edu/

And the team number is 213973

Anyone can join my team, just insert the number in the configuration dialog.

Oh wow, it's been a while. I hope you're doing well. I don't know anything about the linux netwoking stuff, but hey w/e. What are you setting it up for? Also, I see lots of Dell computers.

I heard you met DJ_Omnimaga once

Wow you are so lucky!

Yeah, that would be pretty cool if the three of us meets together.

@Illumio:
Yesh. it may get more diabolical soon. It's an odd cluster as it is, but I may be adding a netbook to it soon! O.o As it is my laptop is how I log into the cluster to do work on it. I can access each node with SSH and do installs and everything while laying in bed lololol. I set myself up for laziness. Gets more done sometimes, because I don't have to get up and scoot off the bed to work on the cluster. That was such a hassle! haha.

In all reality it was though, because I only have one kvm with two port sets on it, so I could only switch two units back and forth at the terminal easily, that's why there were so many keyboards. I did a little more work on this today and verified that my work units are getting worked on correctly, turns out 3 of the units were experiencing problems. My new stats should show up in a week or two when the units have finished enough work and the servers at stanford update.

Here's the stats link for the cluster on stanford's servers.

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=213973

This data will change every day. I have a desktop (my dad's) in the floor below me running a client on his GPU. It gets work units done MUCH faster than any of the units in this cluster. I'm not even sure if my cluster as a whole will outperform it honestly. These units are pretty old. I also haven't figured out a way to benchmark the system yet.

I'll let you all know what the final word is about processing power when the system is finally benchmarked though.

@annoyingcalc: Yes it was quite fortuitous to be able to do those things. I had to do a ton of work to get where I was though, french classes every year since the 6th grade without a gap but once in my freshman year of highschool. I'm not currently taking any french classes but I've been studying forever. I only ended up going because I just so happened to have made a good deal of money building a website, and I had run out of french classes at my community college. So I took the last thing they offered in french, which was the study abroad.

@Juju: We'll see if I can make it happen, but rest assured I'm trying my best!

It's really good to talk to you all again, I've missed you guys. It's really cool that you all were so quick to give me a warm welcome back. That's one of the things I love about this community. You don't get this kind of thing everywhere on the internet. Lots of things are exclusive and require a lot of rites of passage to get into. The calculator community has proven to be the most open programming community I've run into. I really hope that never changes.

I see.  Though I can only imagine the amount of cords everywhere.  It's a sea that will never end.