"Mark and some of the other technical folk at ImageLinks were
experimenting with Linux at home. They began wondering how the
application would run on a set of Linux boxes instead of on the
SGIs. Their theory was that they would not make much of a gain.
However, if the result was comparable, a move to Linux could save
them thousands of dollars a year on software and licenses.
"After making their plans, now they had to implement their
solutions, which included:
"Porting the Application
"Implementing the Beowulf Cluster at ImageLinks
"Implementing an LVS Cluster with Red Hat Linux
"Making Open Source Profits
"Creating a Kickstart Automated Installation File for a
Cluster