Re: Networking

[Richard <nospam [at] zetnet.co.uk>]

Ian

> Also, is it possible to combine the computing
> power of the various machines (build my own mini Cray!!!! ;0)) -
> something like having a multi-processor machine. Is there software
> which would do this or would it also need programmes written
> specifically for such an environment?

If you run Beowulf on three of them and keep the fourth for MS
Windows you'll be very impressed. Makes Star Office work very well
and there are other benefits that you don't realise until you do it.

Be brave and delete that hard disk now :-) Samba is much nicer than
anything else.

Thanks

Richard
Sheffield UK

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