I think Bob is thinking of a kind of distributed processing more than clustering. Clustering seems (at least to me) to reduce the utility of the hardware used for other purposes. A distributed processing type that is less "life changing" for workstations is nice when you still want to use those workstation for other things. Examples would be distributed.net, Seti at Home (the search-for-aliens-in-static one), and programs like Pooch (http://daugerresearch.com/pooch/). Is that what you are thinking of Bob? A "pooch" for linux, or maybe a cross platform "puppie"? I'd like that... >>> chrome at real-time.com 03/19/02 11:51AM >>> On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 12:45:18AM -0600, Bob Tanner wrote: > I'm talking about distributing the compile of the kernel across idle boxes on > your network. it's possible that just building a beowulf cluster (which is what you're looking for) and substituting 'pmake' for 'make' will do the job for some problems. ...<snip>... > Something ala pvm. NOT like a cluster. pvm is what beowulf clustering uses (tho it could be that I'm equivocating here). you're probably thinking of other types of clustering; for redundancy or network load-balancing, which most certainly aren't appropriate here.