Re: Nerd

[Miguel Barreiro Paz <enano@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Cesar, and nice to hear from you again :)

> First:
> BeoWulf can run and improve the performance of soft not compiled with
> PVM or other library of distributed computing?

	Black magic is not implemented yet under Linux, I'm afraid.

> If apache (by example) launch several process, These process run on the
> same machine or beowulf can balance the process over other nodes?

	Round-robin DNS and / or dynamic load balancing via an inverse
proxy are probably the best approaches for a webserver that large that
can't be hosted on a single machine. 

	
> With 486 100 CPU and Ehternet 10Mbps can be reached some advantage? or,
> really, 10Mbps Ethernet is too poor for Beowulf?

	As usual, depends a lot on the application. For IPC-intensive
tasks, it's unlikely to be useful except for testing purposes. If you are
really seeking performance, a massive number of 486 nodes is not usually
the way to go, giving today pricings...

Regards,

Miguel