On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote: > 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. > > 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. > > GNU/Linux wont really make several machines act as one. Most of the > clustering capabilities come from the software, which is able to divide > it's work up and distribute it over several machines. This is specialized > (mostly scientific) software that is not going to speed up your > (for instance) web browsing. > > What you can do is run one program on machine A and another on machine B > (showing them both on the same terminal) and get the benefits of > multitasking without having one machine take the load of both programs. > But I'm not sure how effective this will be on those 386's. The > memory is a little low. > > However, if all these machines have network cards, you have the perfect > platform to learn about networking. Set it up as 2 or 3 subnets and have > one of your machines route between them. > > I guess it all depends... what do you want to do? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ today?
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