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I've seen a lot about clustering, and am wondering how straightforward it is to do. Ive accumulated a load of motherboards, CPUs, power supplys etc over the last year, and was going to attempt to make my own cluster, something like the ocUK "Stompmonster".
What (if any) special tools would I need? Itd be interested to get one folding rather than using my games machine 
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A lot of people have said that you'd need to build a Beowulf cluster, but it seems quite complex from what I've read. I've got an article somewhere that tells you how to do it with standard Linux set-ups. As soon as I can find the article, I'll post some info on here
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you could take a look at this link http://www.extremeoverclocking.com/articles/howto/FAH_Diskless_Farm_1.html it has some good info Hope This Helps Dr-Jon
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Having read the Beowulf wiki mentioned in our own folding guide, it says that no folding client exists for this type of super computer. Therefore what you are looking at are a number of headless nodes networked thru a hub and each running a separate client, be it Windows or Linux. Which should be easy to set up. You would only need one monitor/keyboard/mouse to initially set up each node, then run them headless and Telnet or SSH into them to occassionally see whats going on, running text only Linux and console client would be ideal I think.
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Interesting answers....
I remember reading about a supercomputer that was made using 50 odd PS2s connected together. Would this be able to perfom the task just as well? It may work out far cheaper than investing in the equivilant PC parts
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