Creating a Beowulf Cluster from 5 Machines

[aquitaine]

I have a question, if I had 5 machines I'd like to make into slave nodes, 3 600MHz Pentium 3's, 1 2GHz P4, and 1 2.6GHz P4, is it possible to hook them up into a beowulf cluster?

 

[waht]

Yes, you can network any number of computers for parallel computing.

 

[aquitaine]

So they don't have to be identical?

 

[waht]

no, it just depends on the algorithm how to implement each slave efficiently

there are libraries MPI (message passing interface) for C that can help you write programs for parallel computing

 

[aquitaine]

Thanks.