FYI The August issue of ;login (Usenix/Sage publication) is devoted exclusively to clustering. Some articles of potential interest: Beowulf Cluster Computing at the Third Plateau - T. Sterling The RHIC Computing Facility Linux Farms - T. Throwe Picking Cluster Parts: Cluster Construction at the Genome Sequence Center - M. Krzywinski Linux Clustering for High-performance Computing - I. Lumb This issue will be available free online at the Usenix site (http://www.usenix.org) sometime in September 2001. ----------------------------------- J. Steinbachs, Ph.D. Computational Biologist http://compbiology.org -----------------------------------