We introduce a way to construct a supercomputing capable system with some networked PCs, running the Linux operating system and computing power comparable with expensive commercial workstations, and with the Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) software whi...
We introduce a way to construct a supercomputing capable system with some networked PCs, running the Linux operating system and computing power comparable with expensive commercial workstations, and with the Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) software which enables one to control the total CPUs and memories of the networked PCs. By benchmarking the system using a PVM parallel program, we find that the system's parallel efficiency is close to 90 %.