I don't see why it couldn't be done.  I've absolutely no experience 
with HPC setups, but I love pushing old hardware into new tasks, how 
can I help? : )

Joshua Coombs

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Duke" <wduke@cogeco.ca>
To: <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 12:13 PM
Subject: Beowulf


> 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...
>
>