As for setting up a large stack of 3/50 machines and turning it into
a large batch server, you might want to look at doing all of this
through MPI or PVM.

My home page is at http://www4.ncsu.edu/~kpneal/www/
and my bookmarks contain lots of pointers to MPP stuff.

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