newbie, Setting up a parallel Computing System thats easy to use

Question

Hi,
        Looking at a bunch of old computers, i am interested in combining them to use all of their computing power. I have read about parallel computers such as beowulf clusters and etc and would like to set one up.

The problem is, the end users would be students who would only know how to use the computer. Parallel computing is a new field to me so i'd like a guide on setting one up using windows server as the OS.

I'd also like to know if such a system when connected through a network can use it's computing power to run an application without having it recompiled if it makes use of parallel-processing. For example would be running a simulation used to calculate mechanics and trajectories.

Thank you.

Note: do move this thread to parallel computing general forum since i couldnt select it when posting.

Thank you.

Answer 1

try asking this question here: http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/windowshpc.

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Rick Molloy Parallel Computing Platform : http://blogs.msdn.com/nativeconcurrency http://parallelroads.com/blog