One of the newest things in high speed computing is creating something called "massively parallel computering". A group of scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory pioneered this effort with a project they called Beowulf. Beowulf is a set of programs that links many Linux-powered computers...from two to several hundred...together to form one very large computer that challenges supercomputers in performance. As an example, a short time ago, IBM built a Beowulf cluster of computers using 36 of their Netfinity Xeon-powered systems. That US$150,000 system was as fast as a half million dollar Cray supercomputer and it used completely free software. Well, now The NOSPIN Group is beginning to look at parallel computers, or clusters. We've built a small Beowulf system that performs at the equivilent of a 1,000MHz Celeron processor using parts that anybody can buy at their local computer store...in fact, that's where most of the parts came from! The web page is a little sparse right now, but as time goes by, we hope to learn more about how to make better use of this technology. In the meantime, please point your browser at http://www.nospin.org and click on the NOSPIN Beowulf Project button. The pages are served directly from the cluster, so at times they may be slow, depending upon what testing is going on. Thanks, Drew Dunn PCBUILD mailing list is brought to you by: The NOSPIN Group http://nospin.com