> from what I remember Beowulf uses PVM, and that is already packaged. > They basically seemed when I read their pages to be makeing "add ons" which > make PVM more powerfull >From what I recall, PVM is being superseded by MPI. There is already a Debian packaged implementation of MPI called "mpich." I'd suggest using MPI instead of PVM. By the way, has anyone adopted MPICH since it was orphaned (poor little mpich :))? If not, I'll adopt it. -Ossama