Introduction

Welcome to the distcc pilot service TWiki page. The purpose of this page is to provide information to users involved in the distcc pilot service.

Quickstart

1. Prior to commencing your build run the following command:

export DISTCC_AUTH=1.

DNS alias set up?

What is distcc?

Most visitors to this page will already know about distcc and its advantages, but for those that don't, here's a brief description.

distcc is a tool for speeding up software builds by distributing compilition jobs across several machines on a network. It works with C, C++ Objective C and Objective C++, and is usually much faster than a local build.

CERN Modifications

Pilot Goals

The goals of the pilot are to test our modifications, obtain feedback and evolve the service where aproptiate.

Cluster Configuration

16 build nodes with 128 compilation slots.

8 x SLC4

8 x SLC5

Useful Links

Official home page. User documentaion.

Mailing List

lxdistcc-admins@cernNOSPAMPLEASE.ch