Harmon Seaver[SMTP:hseaver@ameritech.net] wrote: Also it's highly recommended to use dual cpu motherboards for building clusters, which doubles your processing power w/o adding much at all to the electric bill. But you probably are over estimating the power needs -- you don't need the drives or video or soundcards, so you dump those. When I build mine, I'm going to also get rid of the individual PS as well, use DC/DC converters and a central PS running it all off a 12v battery bank hopefully solar powered. Sure, for a university or business, clustering the already available desktop boxes would be the way to go (at least if you had a linux lab), but having even 4 dual 1ghz motherboards would be a fun toy.
Harmon Seaver, MLIS
Also check out http://www.sciam.com/2001/0801issue/0801hargrove.html for a good article on Linux clusters. Peter Trei