Fellas....lets also set a date for our Flash Mob LAN party with Gnu/Linux:
Just what is Flash Mob Computing and FlashMob I? A Flash Mob supercomputer is hundreds or even thousands of computers connected together via a LAN working together as a single supercomputer. A Flash Mob computer, unlike an ordinary cluster, is temporary and organized on-the-fly for the purpose of working on a single problem. Flash Mob I is the first of its kind. By bringing hundreds of people like you together in one room, we will have enough computing power to become one of the fastest supercomputers on the planet.
Who should participate? Anyone with a 1.3 GHZ Pentium III Celeron/AMD equivalent or better with at least 256MB of RAM. FlashMob I is a radical new idea in the world of supercomputers. Kids, students, adults, professionals, academics, web folk, IT departments, computer clubs, LAN Party types. Anyone with a computer that meets the spec is welcome.
What Can I to Do? Bring one or more computers to Koret Gym. Your computer must be at least 1.3 GHZ Pentium III/AMD equivalent or better with at least 256MB of RAM, a 100 Base-T network connection and a CD-ROM.
We will provide you with a CD-ROM that you'll boot from. The CD-ROM contains everything you need including an operating system, networking and configuration software and the benchmarking software. It does not matter what your computer's current OS is. Because the software boots from the CD-ROM and runs entirely from memory, your hard drive will never be touched so it doesn't matter what your OS is or what software you have installed. Register and we will send you reminders as the date grows closer. We'll be publishing the .ISO so you can build your own FlashMob!
When you arrive, you'll be assigned a Hub Captain who will help you get your computers up and working as part of FlashMob I. You'll be running Linpack -- the benchmarking software used to rank the Top 500 Fastest Supercomputers.
So tell your friends, grab computers from home, from work, from school, wherever. Make science, make history, make a supercomputer!
Read more at....http://www.flashmobcomputing.org/
Trevor Warren wrote:
Fellas....lets also set a date for our Flash Mob LAN party with Gnu/Linux:
Just what is Flash Mob Computing and FlashMob I? A Flash Mob supercomputer is hundreds or even thousands of computers connected together via a LAN working together as a single supercomputer. A Flash Mob computer, unlike an ordinary cluster, is temporary and organized on-the-fly for the purpose of working on a single problem. Flash Mob I is the first of its kind. By bringing hundreds of people like you together in one room, we will have enough computing power to become one of the fastest supercomputers on the planet.
Who should participate? Anyone with a 1.3 GHZ Pentium III Celeron/AMD equivalent or better with at least 256MB of RAM. FlashMob I is a radical new idea in the world of supercomputers. Kids, students, adults, professionals, academics, web folk, IT departments, computer clubs, LAN Party types. Anyone with a computer that meets the spec is welcome.
What Can I to Do? Bring one or more computers to Koret Gym. Your computer must be at least 1.3 GHZ Pentium III/AMD equivalent or better with at least 256MB of RAM, a 100 Base-T network connection and a CD-ROM.
We will provide you with a CD-ROM that you'll boot from. The CD-ROM contains everything you need including an operating system, networking and configuration software and the benchmarking software. It does not matter what your computer's current OS is. Because the software boots from the CD-ROM and runs entirely from memory, your hard drive will never be touched so it doesn't matter what your OS is or what software you have installed. Register and we will send you reminders as the date grows closer. We'll be publishing the .ISO so you can build your own FlashMob!
When you arrive, you'll be assigned a Hub Captain who will help you get your computers up and working as part of FlashMob I. You'll be running Linpack -- the benchmarking software used to rank the Top 500 Fastest Supercomputers.
So tell your friends, grab computers from home, from work, from school, wherever. Make science, make history, make a supercomputer!
Read more at....http://www.flashmobcomputing.org/
Is it only me or every one else is also receiving Mr. Warren's mail twice?
Sorry did not read the link but for our Flash Mob LAN party how and when? -Krishna.
Krishna Dagli wrote:
Trevor Warren wrote:
Fellas....lets also set a date for our Flash Mob LAN party with Gnu/Linux:
Is it only me or every one else is also receiving Mr. Warren's mail twice?
Na. Even I got it twice! ;)
Sorry did not read the link but for our Flash Mob LAN party how and when? -Krishna.
It's not 'our' flash mob lan party. It's all over. Check out the link for details. Delhi LUG is planning to do something like this.
Regards,
Afternoon Mejo,
Mejo said:
Is it only me or every one else is also receiving Mr. Warren's mail twice?
[snip]
Yep, that was an issue with my smtp. Apologies on that front.
Na. Even I got it twice! ;)
It's not 'our' flash mob lan party. It's all over. Check out the link for details. Delhi LUG is planning to do something like this.
[snip]
Some reason that we can't try to have fun too......???. After all the s/w is all available whats just needed is acess to the LAN. If probably Nagarjun or someone else can help pitch in towards organising on that front things should work out fine.
Trevor
Regards,
Trevor Warren wrote:
Yep, that was an issue with my smtp. Apologies on that front.
No problems at all. To err is human, to blame it on computer is more human!! ;)
Some reason that we can't try to have fun too......???. After all the s/w is all available whats just needed is acess to the LAN. If probably Nagarjun or someone else can help pitch in towards organising on that front things should work out fine.
Why not? I've downloaded the iso but couldn't try it because of the lack of time. I've been always interested in the idea of clustering and have recently built a 6 node cluster at my office with Clusterknoppix. The good thing is that it doesn't require cd drive on the nodes. I ran the server from cd(later installed it to harddisk) and every machine network remote booted from the server by enabling "network boot" in BIOS.
So adding a node to the cluster is as simple as going to each machine and changing the BIOS setting(and that's what I do after the office hours!!) We have got around 200 machines here out of which 40 are P4s. I've played so far with 6 machines that's inside my room, but soon I'll be adding at least 100 machines to my cluster.
I just want to know if it's possible to boot the nodes without cd in FlashMob ? If not, I won't be able to use it as we don't have cd drives on all machines.
Thanks & Regards,
Evening Mejo,
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 15:58, Mejo wrote:
I just want to know if it's possible to boot the nodes without cdin FlashMob ? If not, I won't be able to use it as we don't have cd drives on all machines.
[snip]
I *guess* they all booted up through cd in flashmob since expecting every machine in the cluster to have remote boot via BIOS isn't just reasonable.
Trevor
Thanks & Regards,
How abt organizing this event in Mumbai?
-Amar Shah
Morning Amar,
Precisely.....if we can have someone muster the resources for the same with enough of flash-mobers to participate you have done yourself an event.
Come along to the meeting at MET and lets thrash out the issue and see if anyone's interested.
Trevor
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 23:23, Amar Shah wrote:
How abt organizing this event in Mumbai?
-Amar Shah
Afternoon Krishna,
Krishna Dagli said:
Sorry did not read the link but for our Flash Mob LAN party how and when?
[snip]
If we can get enough support probably sometime soon.
Trevor
-Krishna.
Hi Trevor,
It's a great idea.
"Flash Mob in Mumbai"
Rajeev
Fellas....lets also set a date for our Flash Mob LAN party with Gnu/Linux:
Just what is Flash Mob Computing and FlashMob I? A Flash Mob supercomputer is hundreds or even thousands of computers connected together via a LAN working together as a single supercomputer. A Flash Mob computer, unlike an ordinary cluster, is temporary and organized on-the-fly for the purpose of working on a single problem. Flash Mob I is the first of its kind. By bringing hundreds of people like you together in one room, we will have enough computing power to become one of the fastest supercomputers on the planet.
Who should participate? Anyone with a 1.3 GHZ Pentium III Celeron/AMD equivalent or better with at least 256MB of RAM. FlashMob I is a radical new idea in the world of supercomputers. Kids, students, adults, professionals, academics, web folk, IT departments, computer clubs, LAN Party types. Anyone with a computer that meets the spec is welcome.
What Can I to Do? Bring one or more computers to Koret Gym. Your computer must be at least 1.3 GHZ Pentium III/AMD equivalent or better with at least 256MB of RAM, a 100 Base-T network connection and a CD-ROM.
We will provide you with a CD-ROM that you'll boot from. The CD-ROM contains everything you need including an operating system, networking and configuration software and the benchmarking software. It does not matter what your computer's current OS is. Because the software boots from the CD-ROM and runs entirely from memory, your hard drive will never be touched so it doesn't matter what your OS is or what software you have installed. Register and we will send you reminders as the date grows closer. We'll be publishing the .ISO so you can build your own FlashMob!
When you arrive, you'll be assigned a Hub Captain who will help you get your computers up and working as part of FlashMob I. You'll be running Linpack -- the benchmarking software used to rank the Top 500 Fastest Supercomputers.
So tell your friends, grab computers from home, from work, from school, wherever. Make science, make history, make a supercomputer!
Read more at....http://www.flashmobcomputing.org/
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