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I've been looking into the possibility of creating a Beowulf Cluster.

"Beowulf Clusters are scalable performance clusters based on commodity hardware, on a private system network, with open source software (Linux) infrastructure."

I don't have much experience, it just seems like a cool project. The thing is I don't own any desktop computers, would it be possible to do this using laptops?

I'm not sure if I need to give more details, please ask me anything that is relevant for this.

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What operating system are you intending to use? – EpiGrad Sep 21 '11 at 17:23

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Computationally laptops are almost identical to desktop counterparts, except for cooling and their harddrive characteristics.

An easy way to go would be to use rocksclusters

http://www.rocksclusters.org/

It would not be very practical to use notebooks to build clusters however.

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