Re: Linking Machines
Sean P. Mason wrote:
> I was wondering. . . I have a bunch of old machines, and I was wondering
> if it was possible to link them all together to act as a single machine
> under Linux. I can't seem to find any information elsewhere thus far.
> I have six 386 Sx-16s with a meg of RAM and 40 megs of space each, and one
> machine around a 486 Dx with 8 megs ram and 200 megs of a hard drive.
GNU/Linux wont really make several machines act as one. Most of the
clustering capabilities come from the software, which is able to divide
it's work up and distribute it over several machines. This is specialized
(mostly scientific) software that is not going to speed up your
(for instance) web browsing.
What you can do is run one program on machine A and another on machine B
(showing them both on the same terminal) and get the benefits of
multitasking without having one machine take the load of both programs.
But I'm not sure how effective this will be on those 386's. The
memory is a little low.
However, if all these machines have network cards, you have the perfect
platform to learn about networking. Set it up as 2 or 3 subnets and have
one of your machines route between them.
I guess it all depends... what do you want to do?
-Mitch
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