Back at school today after the long Labor Day weekend. On Monday I and a couple very good friends of mine went to Lime Rock Park, in Lime Rock, CT, to the Rolex Vintage Festival presented by BMW. Very nice – I saw Bugattis, Ferraris, Aston Martins, and many, many new Mini Coopers (well over five hundred). Best of all, I got to see them race – that was very rewarding, despite the $45 ticket. I'll get some pics up when I get the chance.

Anyhoo, the cluster should be ready by the end of tomorrow. I scrapped ROCKS because I couldn't get the minimum 640MB RAM for each of the nodes, so now I'm going with dyne:bolic, which is actually a LiveCD version of Linux with OpenMosix, which controls the cluster functions. This distro is designed with multimedia working in mind, so I think my school could actually use this.

Another thing about this distro (or, rather, OpenMosix) is that there is no master/slave configuration – each unit works the same. That might be a double-edged sword when it comes to controlling the cluster. I guess I'll just have to see. So far, I'm using a 633mHz Celeron for the “master”, and two 400mHz P2s for the “slave” nodes. They're all connected via switch to themselves and the Net.