A friend of mine wants to do some serious number crunching. (He is a math theory major at NAU- go figure) The problem is, he doesn't have a super computer. So his thought was to make a bootable CD with Linux on it to make a computer a Beowulf cluster node. Then, make another CD to serve as the "master" to all the nodes. His thought was to pop the CD's into computers at the lab at night, and let it process away till dawn. A floppy disk on the master could serve as a place to save data. What do people think of this? Is this possible? Ignore any legal side effects, as he knows the proper channels to go to for a project like this. I don't know enough about Beowulf to really help him out at the moment, but if it looks possible, it sounds interesting and I might help out. Jay -- Jay Kline list at slushpupie.com http://www.slushpupie.com/