@LordSteinchen Depends on what kind of playing around you want to do. For me, I was doing some research into parallel- and cluster- processing, and by chance I got these servers for a good price on ebay - I think a company had upgraded their hardware and were selling their old gear.
So far I've only done some raytracing and small parallel processing tests on these machines, nothing really worthwhile. It's mostly been an experiment in building a small cluster.
@jiyuuma That's exactly what I want to do, too. Building a small cluster and operate it just for fun. And I don't want to spend more than maybe 200 Euro on the machines. How much did you approximatly spend by the way?
@LordSteinchen I paid about AUD$700 for the servers all up. That was for six servers, but two of them were not functioning, so I used the other four servers to build the cluster and kept the two non-functioning servers for spare parts.
Wow, this video is great and very timely! My independent study students are trying to set up a cluster so I had them install Ubuntu 10.10 and pointed them at povray, megapov and megapov xrs but they are struggling! I have used openMOSIX and openMPI in the past to do some number crunching and fractal rendering but that's about it. Could you give us some pointers re PVMPOV? I didn't even think PVM was still being developed or supported.
@calcpage2009 I set up my machines with Ubuntu 9.10 and hunted around for a PVM-enabled build of povray, leading me to the PVMPOV project.
I started with the "stable" pvmpov-3.1 version, but wanted to use povray features that were introduced after 3.1. On the pvmpov site they have an "unstable" patch for 3.5, which I found was more stable than the 3.1 build.
For setting up the cluster and getting povray running on it, I followed the two guides I've linked in the video's description.
@SOEINEGAUDI To set up my cluster, I installed Ubuntu on four machines and then followed two guides I found online. I've updated the video description to include links to the guides.
There was a bit of trial and error getting it set up, but in the end it worked :)
Wow, I like this! Do you use it for personal use or professional?
LordSteinchen 5 months ago
@LordSteinchen Currently I only use it for personal projects
jiyuuma 5 months ago
@jiyuuma I wish I could build something like this by myself. But I don't think it's worth it, just for playing around. You know what I mean?
LordSteinchen 5 months ago
@LordSteinchen Depends on what kind of playing around you want to do. For me, I was doing some research into parallel- and cluster- processing, and by chance I got these servers for a good price on ebay - I think a company had upgraded their hardware and were selling their old gear.
So far I've only done some raytracing and small parallel processing tests on these machines, nothing really worthwhile. It's mostly been an experiment in building a small cluster.
jiyuuma 5 months ago
@jiyuuma That's exactly what I want to do, too. Building a small cluster and operate it just for fun. And I don't want to spend more than maybe 200 Euro on the machines. How much did you approximatly spend by the way?
LordSteinchen 5 months ago
@LordSteinchen I paid about AUD$700 for the servers all up. That was for six servers, but two of them were not functioning, so I used the other four servers to build the cluster and kept the two non-functioning servers for spare parts.
jiyuuma 5 months ago
@jiyuuma Alright, thanks for the info. But I think I'll wait and get 3 or 4 quadcore systems if they're affordable.
LordSteinchen 5 months ago
Mere peanuts! I have a personal cluster with twice as many cores and growing!
Romxero 6 months ago
Wow, this video is great and very timely! My independent study students are trying to set up a cluster so I had them install Ubuntu 10.10 and pointed them at povray, megapov and megapov xrs but they are struggling! I have used openMOSIX and openMPI in the past to do some number crunching and fractal rendering but that's about it. Could you give us some pointers re PVMPOV? I didn't even think PVM was still being developed or supported.
TIA,
A. Jorge Garcia aka calcpage2009
Applied Math and CS
calcpage2009 1 year ago
@calcpage2009 I set up my machines with Ubuntu 9.10 and hunted around for a PVM-enabled build of povray, leading me to the PVMPOV project.
I started with the "stable" pvmpov-3.1 version, but wanted to use povray features that were introduced after 3.1. On the pvmpov site they have an "unstable" patch for 3.5, which I found was more stable than the 3.1 build.
For setting up the cluster and getting povray running on it, I followed the two guides I've linked in the video's description.
jiyuuma 1 year ago
could we get more information, on how you exactley managed to create this cluster ?
(i know this might sound like a n00by question, but i've never created a cluster/studied computer sciences...)
SOEINEGAUDI 1 year ago
@SOEINEGAUDI To set up my cluster, I installed Ubuntu on four machines and then followed two guides I found online. I've updated the video description to include links to the guides.
There was a bit of trial and error getting it set up, but in the end it worked :)
jiyuuma 1 year ago
verry impressiv :P
SOEINEGAUDI 1 year ago
hmm, its curious to see the change in behaviour as well...nice
NetTuber 1 year ago