Linux: Anyone Try Clusterknoppix

ak47 · #1 12-03-2003, 05:55 PM

I just recently tried this and all I can say is

. When using the OpenMosixTerminal its good to have it on your hard drive so you don't have to wait for your CD to spine up or down. But to test is out its great to just to boot from the CD and you get yourself a cluster Server.

If you want to try this or did try this and you have questions I would be glad to help. I got it up and working and it sweet, this is the way most big business are going, instead of one server with scalability you can make a cluster with around 1/10th the cost.

kwag · #2 12-03-2003, 06:28 PM

I installed Mosix once, and I had to do kernel compilation and patches, so it took a while to install.
This looks sweet

btw: The site is here: http://bofh.be/clusterknoppix/
Screenshots here: http://bofh.be/clusterknoppix/clusterinaction.htm

Thanks,
-kwag

ak47 · #3 12-03-2003, 07:01 PM

Crap I knew I forgot to post something

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ak47 · #4 12-04-2003, 07:50 PM

Kwag ever try video encoding with OpenMosix cluster on more than two good pc's together on a cluster. I was able to try TMPGEnc and all i can say is

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kwag · #5 12-04-2003, 08:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ak47

Kwag ever try video encoding with OpenMosix cluster on more than two good pc's together on a cluster. I was able to try TMPGEnc and all i can say is

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Did you run TMPEG in WINE

Because I did try TMPEG about a year ago in Lindows, and it did run

But I didn't try encode anything.

-kwag

ak47 · #6 12-04-2003, 09:40 PM

I used wineX which is the same thing as wine, but built so you can play video rendering stuff (games). You can basically use wine since its free and will do the same thing for applications like TMPGEnc. Also about lindows, I think its horrible to charge for a Linux operating system thats less efficient than a normal Linux with wine. Also I am not positive but somewhere I read you can store .dll files in the wineX so you can later on use them, like YMPEG, but i am not sure I just start exploring Linux.

kwag · #7 12-04-2003, 09:54 PM

I agree with you about Lindows. I don't think their "Click-N-Run" is worth the price. That's the only thing they have done, and even that, it's still downloading and installing GNU software.
So my choice of ALL Linux distros right now, is still Knoppix

I'll have to play more with ClusterKnoppix. But it looks very good

-kwag

ak47 · #8 12-04-2003, 10:19 PM

The only thing I don't like about ClusterKnoppix and OpenMosix is there is not much help directly from there website, I got most of mine from message boards and the small parts of the net. So if any of you guys install this and need help, which you will come across bugs, I would be glad to help, since I am going for my Linux+ Certification, and this will probably be my job.

rhino · #9 12-05-2003, 08:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ak47

Kwag ever try video encoding with OpenMosix cluster on more than two good pc's together on a cluster. I was able to try TMPGEnc and all i can say is

.

I'm curious as to what the performance was like compared to a "normal" tmpgenc session?

Also what is tmpgenc's usability/performance like under wine compared to running it under a version of windows?

Does avisynth work under wine? again whats its usuability/performance like?

Sorry for all the questions but i don't have linux installed at present. Waiting for a good bargain on a HDD to come up.

Cheers,

ak47 · #10 12-05-2003, 10:34 AM

I really haven't test TMPGenc that much, for AVIsynth I read that its not posiable, your best off using ffmpeg or Mencoder. I just wanted to show you can get more power out of linux by using TMPGenc with a cluster then you can with just one computer using linux(So you can use your old computers or if you have more than one computer as if you have just one sitting doing just it by itself). I will try more tonight when I get home and see what you can do with WineX.

P.S. you don't need a Hard drive just a vfat fs and knoppix, cd-rom and a bootable cd-rom bios(its a live cd)

ak47 · #11 12-05-2003, 04:51 PM

Kwag or someone else I need your help, I found out with wineX 3.2, you can maintain a registry and you can also put files into a system32 folder(there system32 folder, which already has a lot of dlls). If you get a chance to try, though its 5 bucks, use wineX and create a registry that is able to load plugins huffyuv. If you don't want to thats ok cause I think its not possible. I loaded divx 5.11 and try to run it though virtualDub and i get an out of bounds memory error. I recall this being discuss somewhere on doom9 forum about you can't use avisyth on wine, so it might be the same with video codecs. I am new to Linux, but very interested on its capabilities, but if someone can guide me on this I would be grateful.

ak47 · #12 12-06-2003, 07:27 PM

Sorry to post too many replies that are just me, but i just wanted to show why I say this stuff.
Ok I think that I can drop the idea about using WineX to emulate windows program because, they suck compared to Linux's OSS for video encoding. I got a Mpeg-2 movie to be practically dvd quality with only 560kbs average bit rate. I couldn't believe it. I don't know if it will work on a dvd-player, because the time is always 0 on Xine, but not with anything else. Here is my script.

Code:

ffmpeg -i "/mnt/hdb1/SPIRITEDAWAYUS/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB" \
        -f vob \
        -an \
        -vcodec mpeg2video \
        -bf 2 \
        -mbd 2 \
        -g 50 \
        -aspect 4:3 \
        -maxrate 3200 \
        -minrate 192 \
        -qscale 5 \
        -bufsize 112 \
        -strict 1 \
        -qcomp 0.5 \
        -intra_matrix "8,9,12,22,26,27,29,34,9,10,14,26,27,29,34,
                       37,12,14,18,27,29,34,37,38,22,26,27,31,36,
                       37,38,40,26,27,29,36,39,38,40,48,27,29,34,
                       37,38,40,48,58,29,34,37,38,40,48,58,69,34,
                       37,38,40,48,58,69,79" \
        -inter_matrix "16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30,18,20,22,24,26,28,
                       30,32,20,22,24,26,28,30,32,34,22,24,26,30,
                       32,32,34,36,24,26,28,32,34,34,36,38,26,28,
                       30,32,34,36,38,40,28,30,32,34,36,38,42,42,
                       30,32,34,36,38,40,42,44" \
        -s 544x480 \
        "/spritedaway3.mpg"

Try it if I was you I wouldn't believe it either.
P.S. Imagine what Mpeg-1 can do
P.S. Also what is the disadvantage of having a higher GOP

kwag · #13 12-06-2003, 09:40 PM

Hi ak47,

What version of ffmpeg did you test this on

-kwag

ak47 · #14 12-06-2003, 10:11 PM

The latest CVS.