From: David Freeman <freeman@earthling.net>
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Re: Home Supercomputing?
Date: 17 Oct 1998 06:18:17 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Approved: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu
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Make sure each one has a network card, and that you have a hub.

The go visit http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/ and do a search on Beowulf. 
There should be a Beowulf HOWTO.  For easier setup, there is also
Extreme Linux by RedHat http://www.redhat.com/  and the for more Beowulf
links visit http://www-hpc.jpl.nasa.gov/PS/HYGLAC/beowulf.html

Beowulf is any loosely-coupled network of workstations running UNIX (or
UNIX variant), and some sort of parallel library.  It mostly means a
network of workstations running Linux, connected by Ethernet, and using
PVM and MPI libraries for parallel applications.


Douglas Baker wrote:
> 
> I'm curious as to what it takes to set up a parallel computer.  I've got a
> couple of old i386 and i486 boxes lying around and would like to put them
> to use.
> 
> Is the a book available?
> Online documentation?

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