Outrun: Execute local command using processing power of another Linux machine

Re:Outrun: Execute local command using processing power of a... by mbreese on Thursday March 18, 2021 @02:56PM (#26506204)

> project is clearly useless in HPC setting

Which is why I'm curious about the applications they had in mind. I know that my workflow isn't typical for most people, so hopefully others have better uses in mind.

For me, I just submit adhoc jobs to SLURM and call it a day. Not everyone has access to an HPC cluster or is comfortable setting such a system up for a small, home cluster.

Anything (like this project) that makes HPC-like processing more accessible, I'm interested in.

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Re:Outrun: Execute local command using processing power of a... by Overv on Thursday March 18, 2021 @03:00PM (#26506251)

When I developed this I was very much thinking of using this to run one-off compute heavy tasks, e.g. compressing a video, running scientific computations or rendering something in Blender. You would just rent a VM for a few hours with the hardware you need, set it up in a few minutes, run your job there and delete it again.

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Re:Outrun: Execute local command using processing power of a... by zekrioca on Thursday March 18, 2021 @07:53PM (#26508849)

OP’s project is actually a good idea at development stage, where data is not the main thing yet..

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