Re: Linking Machines
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Sean P. Mason wrote:
> I was wondering. . . I have a bunch of old machines, and I was wondering
> if it was possible to link them all together to act as a single machine
> under Linux. I can't seem to find any information elsewhere thus far.
http://www.beowulf.org/
(and links therefrom).
> I have six 386 Sx-16s with a meg of RAM and 40 megs of space each, and one
> machine around a 486 Dx with 8 megs ram and 200 megs of a hard drive.
Ummm -- 6 386 Sx-16s -- that's just about half a P100, isn't it? :(
But for proof-of-concept work, why not? Go for it, just for the
experience of building it, and getting started on parallelization.
--
Martin Wheeler - StarTEXT, Glastonbury, Somerset, England - BA6 9PH
mwheeler@startext.co.uk http://www.startext.co.uk/beowulf/
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