Idea! Compile farm

[Mr. Happy]

I just had an amazingly awesome idea! I've got a lot of old CPU's and RAM stick's lying around, and was thinking about building a beowulf cluster, probably about 6-9 nodes. Anyway, on to the idea..

seems alot of you guys have super fast internet connections, so i was thinking, maps and textures and model's etc. are pretty damn small, especially if you have a massive upload pipe. anyway, this isn't about distributed compiling, but rather, a system that (if you have a minimum connection speed) you can upload your maps to and get the compiled for you. imagine how long a final compile would take with 12GhZ and 10Gb of ram behind it

here's the tricky part, someone has to port the compile tools to a cluster flavor of linux or bsd

anyway, this may not be feasible, but i think it's a great idea to toy with. im sure there's alot of other people out there with access to piles of what you might now consider junk whom could build other clusters for the project

[SlappyBag]

Thats a great idea, and charge $5 per hour of compile or somthing and then send me the profit.

Aweosme!

[Shr3d]

I've got an e6600, 2 x 2.4ghz celeron and 1x 800mhz pantium 3.

That's a total of 10.4ghz! woop woop!

Now, how do I get it to work lol

[SlappyBag]

If i had all that spare I wouldn't make a compile farm, I'd make one uber awesome gaming machine.

[Jest@]

that's exactly what I was suggesting to Rustvaar about the distributed compiling petition!

It's a great idea - but are you sure you'll be able to get vrad etc working on a beowulf?

[Mr. Happy]

I dunno, but that's your job!

I wouldn't be suprised if so though, does vrad currently solve multiple matrices in seperate threads?

[Forceflow]

If only netvis existed for source.

In fact it does, but there's hardly any info about it.
link

The tool seems to be for source licensees only.
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Vmpi

In other words: I'd love to see it happen, but the it's lacking on the software side of things. Then again, having several pc's at your service is nice too. Some people might like submitting their map, and doing other things whilst it's compiling on a remote box.

[Psy]

Crazy shit! Do it.