William Duke writes: 

> I'm curious as to whether anybody has ever tinkered with the idea of setting
> up a 68k Mac Beowulf cluster using NetBSD?  I did do a quick search on
> Google and found that somebody in Japan was working on a 68k Mac based HPC. 
> 
> I think it would be an interesting project.   24 Quadra 700's or Quadra
> 605's running BSD or Linux, doing some high performance, relatively
> speaking, computing.   I already have one Quadra 700 and an old 24 port
> 10baseT switch that I could use. 
> 
> Hmm, I just need 23 more Quadras to really start some super-computing...

Darn it, I just sent about 40 Quadra class computers off to surplus.... 

It would be an interesting exercise but I bet some newer/older Macs (400 mHz 
G4s) would be easier and faster. But, if I still had the Quadras, I might 
have given the task a try... 

Jeff 

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