Scyld on non-dedicated network

[Ron Chen]

I am not an expert on NT/W2K, but I would like to tell
you what I know. If you are not going to run parallel
jobs, and you have an NT version of the applications,
then read on.

You may try the NT version of PBSPro, which provides a
mix of Windows/Unix in the same cluster.

Or you may try to get the processing prower back with
a P2P client.

A well-known one is United Devices:

http://www.ud.com

The advantage of the above solutions is that you don't
need to reboot (actually rebooting the NT boxes daily
is needed, even you don't run anything :-) ).


 -Ron

--- Jon Tegner <Jon.Tegner at wiglaf.se> wrote:
> At our department people are generally using
> windows, but quite a few of
> them has really powerful computers connected to the
> local network, with
> addresses supplied by a dhcp-server (running NT).
> 
> In an attempt to utilize this computing power (when
> the users are not
> present, e.g., nights, week-ends etc.) would it be
> possible to use them
> as diskless clients using Scyld, or would there be
> conflicts with the
> present dhcp-server that prevents this from being
> done?
> 
> /jon
> 
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