Making my own DC client

[nightelph]

So I want to help a friend make our own DC client. Where do I start?

He a mathematician and his work [CSU] wants him to start exploring parallel processing and distributed computing. I'd like to put a client together that will utilize four computers on a gigabit home network to start with. Can anyone point me in a direction?

[psionic98]

This article/site is from 2004, but its a starting point if the code exists still (i did not look that far into it)

how to set up a beowulf cluster (http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Beowulf-HOWTO/)

[Dooms101]

I am pretty sure using BIONC will allow you to setup custom groups and what not, you'll probably have to do a lot of coding as far as work load and data management/handling.

[nightelph]

^ I imagine I would. Thanks for the input.

[Dooms101]

Tell us how it goes as I was just thinking about doing something like this. :rock:

[nightelph]

Haha cool. Its going to be a long term project on the side. But BOINC looks like a great place to start.

[penquissciguy]

BOINC does work well, but the learning curve is a little steep. I've successfully written and distributed a BOINC client on my own computers, but only under Linux. If you have a choice of operating system, BOINC under Linux works well.

[nightelph]

They do have a VM linux image with everything loaded and configured though, I may try that option.