MandrakeClustering Shows Off At ISC2003

joestar writes "Just released today at ISC2003, Germany, is "MandrakeClustering", a high-performance computing Linux distribution/solution, which sounds interesting, at least in the PR: Pentium support with optimizations made with the Intel compiler, 64-bit Opteron support (with in this case, up to 16 GB of RAM for each cluster's node!), parallelized URPMI (Mandrake's apt-get) and other dedicated tools. This product is based on a one-year research project "CLIC" involving MandrakeSoft and partners. A good snapshot of the product running a 3D real-time demo is available here. The interesting point now: MandrakeClustering's goal is to provide a system which is easy to deploy, easy to administer and use. Well... Mum would certainly love to play Quake with this toy."

We make jokes about Quake

[ObviousGuy]

But what are people doing with these things in the wild? Is everyone running rendering farms?

Do file/mail servers really need this kind of horsepower (assuming you aren't Google or Yahoo, of course)?

So, is *THIS* where my MD subscription dollars go?

[RLiegh]

If so, then I think it's a pretty good investment. :)

So much for the "bailing out a failing business, let the market sort it out" mindset. If Mandrake hadn't appealed to the public, they would not have had the $ to come up with this. :)

Re:This is the problem with Linux

[Arandir]

/bin/sh is /bin/sh wether in NetBSD, OS X or GNU.

Not really. /bin/sh is vanilla bourne shell under NetBSD and OSX, but under GNU and Linux it's all too often a symlink to bash. Although bash has very good bourne compatibility, and squeaks past the POSIX shell requirements, it's managed to cause numerous headaches for me when I specify /bin/sh only to get /bin/bash instead. /bin/sh should always be a plain boring bourne shell, and not a link to bash, ksh or another "big" shell. /bin/sh is not going to be used by the enduser, it's going to be used by scripts.

Cluster File System

[codepunk]

It ain't a cluster until it has a clustered file system. Until it has that it is nothing more than another high availability solution.

Re:Cluster File System

[Anonymous Coward]

This cluster is the kind for processing power not redundancy you squirrel fucker.

Why the fuck would it need a clustered file system you cockfucker? The shit it's processing will be in fucking god damn ram the whole fucking time anyway you mangina snacking turdbandit.

Take fucking doing processing with big ass clusters 101 or something you ignorant rectumbuccaneer.

Re:Mandrake + French =

[BiggerIsBetter]

The French are the most two-faced, culturally backwards, hubris-filled people on the planet.

Ever been there, AC?

Re:Mandrake + French =

[phoxix]

This has nothing to do with French people. I am plenty sure that there are many people from around the world that have worked on linux, *AND* that you probably disagree with outright.

But none of that matters. What matters is that while our people disagree, and our governments fight, we still can come together on something at least. And in our geeky world, that something is free software.

Sunny Dubey

PS: The right to disagree is rather powerful, sadly people don not see that when they do disagree with each other.

Re:Cluster File System

[GigsVT]

I guess you might want to tell that to all the people that do high performance clustering with nothing more than ssh.