From: a.t.bavuso@larc.nasa.gov (Anthony Bavuso)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Parrallel computing using Linux
Date: 8 Jul 1999 23:34:14 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
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Greetings,

I am setting up an ethernet-LAN at home and I would like to use all my
old 486s and early pentiums for something instead of just gathering
dust.  So I would like to set it up so that I can have distributed
processing capability over my LAN.   

I want to be able to write a program that can spawn threads and have
the operating system assign them to other unloaded computers on the
LAN.   

Is linux the OS I need to do this?  If not then any other ideas?  Also
are there any suggestions for network hardware?  Should I use 100mb
ethernet, fast ethernet, ,,,,?

Thanks.

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