High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster

[Sean Cavanaugh]

> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:19:28 -0700
> From: gerardon_paredes at yahoo.com
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster
> 
> Hello, i am interested in setting up a small cluster, of about 5 machines to show how this can work on a university environment. Its kind of a pitch to university authorities to show them how this work so they can think on investing top dollars on it.  We have a bunch of workstations running FreeBSD, However as i been reading through the documentation, the canonical situacion would be a environment where the machines netboot over the server, get most of their partitions over NFS and have NIS installed so users can authenticate at the server and share resources available at the cluster. 
> 


not an answer to your question, but you might be interested by this http://mini-itx.com/projects/cluster/
might give you some insight into what you are looking for

-Sean