a simple beowulf setup?

[Shane Martin]

Hi all,

Need some basic Beowulf help. This is just as a "see if it works" exercise -
before any real hardware is acquired.

Looking for article/Howto/instructions on how to setup a boot floppy for
(hard)diskless node.

The idea is to build a dedicated single server node. Then to boot from
floppy n other machines with shares to the single server.

Have access to a laptop to run up the linux server. Our sales staff have a
fleet of NT / 95 notebooks - if I did not touch their hard disks - just
reboot them from floppy - maybe I then have an after hours beowulf ?

Any recommendations ?

Thanks,
Shane