Re: [MLUG] parallel knoppix

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 11:34:07 -0600 (CST), Mike Miller
<EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> I remember that Stephen had a program that was useful for distributed
> analysis.  Maybe he'll have a comment on this Knoppix solution.  Also, Jon
> King has made extensive use of Octave (which now handles multi-dimensional
> arrays, by the way).

What?? It does?  Since when?  Whoo hoo!   Also note this:
 
> > Just FYI, it has been used in Apple's Xgrid parallel computing
> > environment.
> >
> >   http://www.apple.com/acg/xgrid/
> >
> > And interestingly, there is some work to add Linux agents to run under
> > Xgrid
> >
> >  http://packmug.ncsu.edu/wolfgrid/Xgrid-on-Linux-HOWTO.php

I've seen some Xgrid demos, and, wow, that's a nice system.
 
> Another possibility is ParallelKnoppix, which contains Octave and MPITB.
> MPITB lets Octave scripts and function use LAM/MPI to run in parallel.
> This is a live CD, everything is set up and ready to run. I've used it
> myself on clusters up to 25 nodes. Information is at
> 
> http://pareto.uab.es/mcreel/ParallelKnoppix

OK, so does the Octave they give you handle obvious cases like
divvying up the work to handle huge sparse arrays, or do you have to
hand code that stuff yourself?  I guess I'll have to try this out once
the Giant Stack of Papers is finally graded...

jking
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