On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, 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.

http://www.beowulf.org/

(and links therefrom).

> 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.

Ummm -- 6 386 Sx-16s -- that's just about half a P100, isn't it?  :(

But for proof-of-concept work, why not?  Go for it, just for the
experience of building it, and getting started on parallelization.
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