Well, I have a bunch of old computers kicking around that grudge through running office programs, but can still do that task.

However, I have no need for these computers, and there aren't any areas around me (that I know of anyway) who would legally accept the computers for school use, or have better stuff, besides, they're old!

The hardware is non-compliant with today's stuff on several boxes (I have about 3 or 4 I want to use, 3 at first, then perhaps add on my fourth as another node if it works out nice), as in, the memory inserts aren't even close to standard sizes, but these have at most 32mb, and 1gh, with 2gb drives. One has this setup, with a 128 stick in it, and I have at least another 128 stick floating around some where (this is the only computer that is 'newer' and can be upgraded).

What I want to do, as you have guessed, is wire together my 4x1gh pentiums, 4x2gb disks, and 3x32mb +128mb memory sticks into a cluster that would be running all of these.

The only thing is, I don't know how to. I've searched the net, and found out about other people who've done this with similar systems... sadly, the articles weren't very good at telling me how to do it!

I plan on running linux (I know how to use linux, don't worry about that-- unless it's cluster specific anyway) on this cluster which would make it a BeoWulf, I believe.

From what I read over here, I need to wire my parts into one (or two?) power boxes (can I do this safely over 3/4?)
Also, is it suggested that I make a new box like they did?

And most important of all, how do I link them all up together so it works as one computer? I read things about ethernet, but it didn't say much, just that it was used.