Here is a cool link I found on the subject.
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/beowulf/beowulf.html
Dan
At 04:03 PM 3/20/98 -0000, james huckle wrote:
>This sounds like a good use of 10 quid boxes, not to mention an excuse
>for the missus to moan about "those bloody machines". Any more details
>anyone?
>
>James
>
>> ----------
>> From: Tempel, Philippe[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: 20 March 1998 15:54
>> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
>> Subject: RE: All this talk about 386's...
>>
>> > >>>>> "J" == Jeff Ivany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> >
>> > J> Hi All. This talk about 386's has got me wondering... Has
>> anyone
>> > J> ever tried to use a bunch of 386's as a small distributed
>> computing
>> > J> system? I know that the Beowulf (sp?) project uses higher end
>> > J> machines but what about all those old 386 systems??
>> >
>> > It was called Amoeba. Andrew Tannenbaum did it, iirc. You should
>> > find some references to it if you web search, but it was never
>> > generally available to the public, just to schools for research or
>> for
>> > money, I think.
>> >
>> [PT] I looked at Amoeba once. It looks like a cool system. It
>> requires at least 5 computers though. One for the file server,
>> one for the terminal and three for the processor pool. It is
>> free only to educational institutions (unless they changed their
>> policy). But, I digress... ;-)
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