At my house I have about 10 computers all different processors and speeds (all x86 compatible). I would like to cluster these. I have looked at openMosix but since they stopped development on it I am deciding against using it. I would prefer to use the latest or next to latest version of a mainstream distribution of Linux (Suse 11, Suse 10.3, Fedora 9 etc).
Does anyone know any good sites (or books) that explain how to get a cluster up and running using free open source applications that are common on most mainstream distributions?
I would like a load balancing cluster for custom software I would be writing. I can not use something like Folding@home because I need constant contact with every part of the application. For example if I was running a simulation and one computer was controlling where rain was falling, and another controlling what my herbivores are doing in the simulation.
I recently set up an OpenMPI cluster using Ubuntu. Some existing write up is at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MpichCluster .