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How to use combined CPU/Memory power of a Windows cluster

I have 5 Windows machines (dual-core, 3GB) in a LAN all joined to a domain. I have a program which needs 8-cores and 10 GB to run in a given SLA time. What platform/tool can i use to harness the combined CPU/memory and other resources of these…
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Per-thread Distrubuted Computing?

I want to run an unmodified MS Windows application, distributed across multiple machines. Can I extend its Symmetric Multiprocessing support to span multiple CPUs on multiple machines? Instead of just a single machine.
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Finding the number of blocks given replication goal in Google FIle System?

A cluster contains 1500 machines each having 500GB disk capacity. Calculate approximate number of chunk servers, blocks and total available size if default chunk replica is 3 and 5 respectively? We have 1500 machines-: 1 master 1 shadow master So…
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Suggestion for Non Analytical Distributed Processing Frameworks

Can someone please suggest a tool, framework or a service to perform the below task faster. Input : The input to the service is a CSV file which consists of an identifier and several image columns with over a million rows. Objective: To check if any…
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Good technology for a large-scale batch operation on many S3 files in AWS Batch with Spot instances

I have an enormous corpus of text data stored in millions of files on S3. It's very common that I want to perform some operation on every one of those files, which uses only that file and creates a new file from it. Usually, I use my company's…
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Binding multiple IP on single listen throws error in HAProxy

I have a LB which is redirecting request in a round robin mechanism to my 4 servers configured. I have assigned a floating IP address(LOADBALANCERFLOATINGIPADDRESS) to the machine. Now I want my LB to listen on both the IP address. So I tried…
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What are my options for a distributed, row-oriented database?

(Sorry if this isn't the right forum. StackOverflow doesn't seem right, either. I thought there used to be a description on the home page saying what kind of questions were relevant but I can't find it today.) I have multiple servers that will…
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Is there a way I can share system resources across a heterogenous system?

I have two machines, one is a laptop running windows 7, the other a desktop running fedora. Is it possible to connect the two computers together somehow so that the laptop uses the memory or disk resources of the desktop or the other way round?
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Volunteer Distributed computing like Folding@home

I'm a user of Folding@home and like its ability to leverage idle machine to process tasks. I'd like to do something similar with my work where I can allow users to volunteer their machines and have a client install that will process tasks I have.…
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Is there any standard for DNS <-> IP authentication?

I'm looking to implement an authentication mechanism which allows to enforce access policies based on the domain name of the client. The authentication server uses the information available in the DNS to verify the client authorisation. More…
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Solutions for monetizing excess CPU cycles

My company has a big (relatively) computer farm, say, 100 physical servers (dual CPU hexacore e5 xeons with 160 Gb RAM) leased from some hardware provider (say Leaseweb or OVM) on monthly basis, means, on 1st January I pay for all 100 servers to use…
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What to do unused servers

Since I have an application that is growing and i run on hardware I always have a few extra servers sitting around and want to find away to donate them. I am famulaure with folding@Home but maybe there are some less popular projects that could use…
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Parallel computing: Distributed systems vs multicore processors?

I was just wondering why there is a need to go through all the trouble of creating distributed systems for massive parallel processing when, we could just create individual machines that support hundreds or thousands of cores/CPUs (or even GPGPUs)…
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