homemade supercomputer.

[the mitch]

what do you have do do to connect a bunch of mobo together inorder to make a fster computer. i just saw an ebay auction for 10 p2 and 10 mobos. the mobo are M21 94V-0.

[mazdarx7-64]

It is called clustering.

[the mitch]

and that is done how?

[justinw]

Thats a good question. I want to know too.

[the mitch]

seeing in my other posts, the pc that i screwed up the bios in, it has driven me to make a new compputer. just want to use a bunch of p2 and p3 though. they are soo cheep

[mazdarx7-64]

you need a cluster OS, such as ROCKs linux or something like that. There are also cluster programs available. Small hard drives for each PC, you can do a network boot if the PC will boot from the network, or boot from a thumb drive if the mother board will boot from a USB device. A switch with enough ports to plug up all the PCs to. 1 PC to act as the "master station", this is the only PC that needs a monitor, keyboard, and mouse after everything is setup. And a good bit of time to set it all up.

EDIT: here you go
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_cluster

[pphalan]

http://stonesoup.esd.ornl.gov/
The Stone SouperComputer - ORNL's First Beowulf-Style Parallel Computer
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/doc...ulf-HOWTO.html
The Beowulf HOWTO
http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Beowulf...ook/index.html
Engineering a Beowulf-style Compute Cluster
http://www.beowulf.org/
Beowulf.org: The Beowulf Cluster Site

[eskiled]

spend some time at clusterknopix's website. it may be helpful to you.

[vikeor]

y do u wanna cluster them? theres really no point...

[mazdarx7-64]

Quote:

Originally Posted by vikeor

y do u wanna cluster them? theres really no point...

That is true, it is not like you can run games, or anything like that on a cluster. Clusters are mostly for number curnching, and research type things. You could always run FaD on it