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Grant Sewell wrote: > Since I thought about this I've come to realise that I will potentially > have the ability to play about with this in the near future. We have > just taken delivery of 200 or so "out of commission" Dell GX270s (I > believe)... all in relatively good working order. There has been > discussion in the staff room of setting a bunch of them up in a cluster > for the benefit of those doing "animation courses". I may well be > running a BTEC National Diploma module next year on network management, > so LTSP could fit nicely in there. > > I appreciate that the original idea of LTSP was that the clients were > low-specced machines, and I can fully see where you're going on the law > of diminishing returns thing... but with "average" machines, set up as > medium clients (personally I think they should be "thin clients", > "podgy clients" and "fat clients"... which would leave a standard > "Windows XP + Server2003" setup with a name like "obese clients", but > that's just me :D), they could contribute a portion to the processing > power of the LTSP server, should it be set up in a cluster, could they > not? > > Grant. > It's certainly worth a try to see if they could. Just imagine the power you could harness, and um... the power they'll chew through as they'll presumably be Pentium 4 chips (not overly power efficient). Just watch out for leaking capacitors. If you're lucky the majority of the machines will have had their motherboards replaced by Dell so they have good boards. If you're unlucky you'll possibly have one or two with leaking capacitors. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html