I've been contemplating doing this with the several IIci's that I  
have.  All I need is a few more hard drives and I'm gonna give it a  
try...I just don't know what for yet though...

dave rogers

On Oct 11, 2005, at 11:27 AM, Joshua Coombs wrote:

> 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...
>>
>>
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