| Cluster Tupă i486+ | rengolin@systemcall.com.br | |
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| Projects: |
We have some projects we want to run in Tupă. All of them are very futuristic and we
know it'll never be complete or satisfactory, however we'll try it anyway.
Qubit Simulator: We'll try to simulate a quantum computer using a few quantum behavior and some optic control. All emulation will be simplified but it is already a hard thing to do! Data Crunch, on-line plot: One idea is to put all data in a single "container" using some abstraction here and then crunch them using user defined ranges in every axis (n-dimensional) and then show them in bidimensional and tridimensional graphics. Jessica: Perhaps the most futuristic of them all, we want Jessica to be our HAL 2001. She may answer calls, give messages (depending who is calling), ask if the music she's playing is good, controls the volume using predefined preferences for each member and things like that. Ok, we know everybody wants that and nobody have it full-featured but we may dream too... The City: It's a litle more close to reality. It's a City that users may connect to visit and talk to other users, including NPC's. That's just the start, we want to create a history behind and make people to interate with it. Tools to easy create it's own world is also in our mind... It'll start like a MUD and end like a real-life game... (at least we wish so). Learning: Tupă also have the learning sections. That's where we will teach everytihng we learned from it to everyone who desires to know. Thats, of course, the most important part of constructing a cluster because we'll take so long to achieve our objectives that we even consider it as "impossible". ;) Do you have ideas? So, send us your ideas for a project to be run on a cluster and we'll have pleasure in evaluate them!.
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THIS PROJECT WAS CANCELED BY LACK OF TIME AND MONEY See why |
| Software: |
We still have no real code running on the few machines we have but this will be the area
where all code will be. For now, I'm pleased to show you my first MPI code
that actually do something further than "Hello World". It sincronizes two machines using the
"radar algorithm" as defined in "special relativity" by calculating both clocks at the same
"light-time", using the half of the diference between the "call" and the "response" as the remote
time.
It's much simpler then it may appear, see by your self!
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| Hardware and Network: |
The machines are all old donated i486 / Pentium. We expect to have better machines in some
time because we cannot achieve a K62 performance with all our machines by now. That's very
poor and we want more. But, the experience gained from that machines will provide us sufficient
knowledge to assembly a true beowulf cluster with real computational power.
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