Hi, I have a load of old hardware lying about and I thought I may be able to put it to some good use (RC5 for TA). I was just wondering how best to set them to work. i.e. should I have each machine running idividually and then connect them to a network, or have them in a cluster working together as one (can this be done easily?)
I really don't want to have to beg/borrow/steal a hard-disk, monitor, gfx card etc for each machine. I would prefer it if I could only use the bare minimum of hardware. If I could connect all of these machines to one central server, can this then assign work to each individual machines on the network as if it was just one large machine? Can Linux do this and if so, how hard will it be to achieve?
Sorry about all of the questions, but I am pretty new to networking and I am not even sure if I am getting my point accross properly. Hopefully, some of you more experienced people will be able to help me....
Thanks in advance,
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Phil.
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I really don't want to have to beg/borrow/steal a hard-disk, monitor, gfx card etc for each machine. I would prefer it if I could only use the bare minimum of hardware. If I could connect all of these machines to one central server, can this then assign work to each individual machines on the network as if it was just one large machine? Can Linux do this and if so, how hard will it be to achieve?
Sorry about all of the questions, but I am pretty new to networking and I am not even sure if I am getting my point accross properly. Hopefully, some of you more experienced people will be able to help me....
Thanks in advance,
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Phil.
RC5 Stats