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> A friend has departed with his (old?) Compaq CL1850, which is
> a pentium III
> cluster with various redundancies. It's a large piece of
> "iron", or in
> Amateur Radio terms, a "boatanchor". The more it blows and
> glows, the better
> for some of us that like a relic. Maybe it will help warm the room.
It will warm your blood when you see the power bill. I believe I have used
one of these a long time ago. If you want to warm your room, try buying a
little vornado room warmer like:
http://www.epinions.com/content_122575163012
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> development machine (GCC)
> but use it of course for general purposes - running samba,
> file sharing, etc, inside a private network.
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> be any complications should I add a processor to each node,
> making it a dual processor 2 node cluster.
I don't think it is worth your time. Buy two cheap P4s from Dell etc. and
you will have 3-4x performance, 3-4x less power bill, and 10x less noise and
heartburn. It certainly isn't worth adding processors years after
manufacture as this IMO causes problems..
Regards,
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