My computer is extended well beyond its own hardware. With the network being the computer. These are the other hardware devices I use to create my cluster. Computers: File Server MythTv Backend #1 - Master MythTv Backend #2 - Slave Home Automation server MBP Ext drive server + itunes server Devices: Neuros OSD DVR from VCR SiliconDust HDHomeRun SiliconDust HDHomeRun Prime x6 Apple airport express - audio patch - WIFI Hotspots Onkyo 906, audio stream + control PS3 - video audio player Raspberry Pis Network IP camera To build: Remote interface machines Networked android box File Server: Everything should be stored here unless needing High IO. MythTv Server: This machine takes streams from the SiliconDust Tuner and records them. This box and the slave split transcoding and streaming to other devices for displaying content. Home Automation Server: Currently using X10 hardware and Software to allow remote control via VNC Using VNC and Lubuntu on several machines running handbrake as a mini rending cluster. I'm also researching the use of XGrid. If this works I will use this for povray and handbrake. Lubuntu boots so fast I could literally boot this cluster in a minute and start crunching from the command console. Remote applications via SSH/X-window forwarding. This is like running the application locally but using remote resources. This is much better/faster than VNC on a lan. With this method you can just call up as many other computers running however many applications it can handle and not slow down the Client/Command Machine. This only works on linux/unix using x11 desktops for servers. You can use a mac/windows machine as a control center. |
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