RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

Kernel schmernel, KDE takes something like 18 hours to compile (and I think KDE sucks -- Enlightenment all the way!). Knock that down by two-thirds or a half with a couple of more boxes with a 'net connection. Building an A/V Gentoo box takes many days. Damn tight when you're done, but it takes a while. distcc would definitely help.

That being said, I haven't used distcc yet. I've been spending my time figuring out the ATAPI crap under 2.4 (I've been told that 2.6 cleans it up) and kernel patches to sync a Treo with USB. I don't need to add another variable into the list by grid'ing with co-workers boxes who may be running different versions of stuff.

:)

Rich

Rich Jesse                           System/Database Administrator
rjesse_at_qtiworld.com                  Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mladen Gogala [mailto:mladen_at_wangtrading.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 1:29 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Re: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?
>
>
> Haven't you ever heard of things like "modular programming",
> "object oriented approach", "divide and conquer" and alike?
> What in the Wall's name are you doing when you need a distributed
> compiler? Linux kernel compiles on my box in 10 minutes, modules
> need another 10 and I'm good to go.
> On 10/27/2003 01:09:25 PM, "Jesse, Rich" wrote:
> > Some of us here at work have been using "grid computing" to compile
> > programs...
> >
> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/distcc.xml
> >
> > Standard disclaimers apply (e.g. all machines must have
> same versions
> > of
> > copmiler, same architecture, etc. to avoid problems).
> >
> >
> > Rich

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