> From: raoul@olympus.net
> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 09:55:14 -0700
> To: William Duke <wduke@cogeco.ca>
> Cc: port-mac68k@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Beowulf
> 
> 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...
> 

There's no doubt in my mind that the newer machines would be easier and
faster.  There's just something about a cluster of twenty or so Quadra 700s
or Quadra 605s that gets my motor running.   I guess it's just one of those
things that you do just because somebody else says that you're crazy to try.
;)

Regards,

William