Clustering

[Megatron]

Heya!

I just had a job oportunity, but for that I need to set up a cluster using 6 desktop PCs.

Hardware:
6 x AMD Athlon 64Bit
6 x 1GB DDR 533MHZ
12 x 200GBs Hitachi HD.
6 x Matrox Parphelia
Possible RAID using SATA or SCSI
Gigabyte Mobos(Don't know the model)
Cisco Switch and Router.

Software:
Slackware 10.0 or Solaris(prolly) - Depending on budget
And a machine in Win XP to use Maya and 3DS Max 5.

As I don't know almost anything about clustering.. .I was wondering if anyone cares to point me out some links or eBooks for me to get some input!

Thanks in advance!

[kkubasik]

check this

http://openmosix.sourceforge.net/

ive only used distcc, the closest thing to clustering I've done, but this seems pretty popular.

[sarumont]

check this

http://openmosix.sourceforge.net/

ive only used distcc, the closest thing to clustering I've done, but this seems pretty popular.

OpenMosix is pretty much the best you can get for an all-around cluster (from what I've heard). distcc is great for distribution of C compiling (actually anything that compiles with gcc, I think), but that's it. OpenMosix is kernel-level, making it ideal for distributing *everything*.