On the other hand, for VERY LITTLE money, you can buy an ABIT BH6
motherboard (or several motherboards) connect them in a diskless boot
arrangement from a master node and run pvmpov like a Cray T3 (or
faster).

JK


Shalon Wood wrote:
> 
> Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> writes:
> 
> >   I'm probably going to get this all wrong but here it is.
> > With computers you will find that the fastest system speed
> > you can obtain is equal to your slowest piece of hardware.
> > It might add a little more cpu power but because of the buss
> > speed and cpu speed you will probably slow down everything
> > to the speed of the 386DX40.
> > A no gain situation.
> > But I'm probably wrong again.
> 
> You are. :) PVM doles out small portions to each machine as they
> finish, so the faster machines get more of the work.
> However, the machine he has in mind would be useless for this, as it
> has no hard drive and this no place to swap--and any scene that would
> fit in the .5 meg or so that he would have left after the kernel and
> ramdisk wouldn't need to be split up.
> 
> Shalon Wood
> 
> --
> People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die.
> --Jim Davidson on alt.folklore.urban

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