[gentoo-dev] What could one cook up with a pile of 50 Sun Netra X1's I wonder :-)

[gentoo-dev] What could one cook up with a pile of 50 Sun Netra X1's I wonder :-)

[Vishnu Mohan]

Fellow Gentooers,

I have been given the task of installing a pile of 50 Sun Netra X1's.

It seems to me using these machines for mundane socket programming and
the like (in other words, I don't exactly like Solaris all that much)
would be a plain waste of useful computing resources. I would really
appreciate it if you could point me to any resources that would let me
install Linux on them with MOSIX and a distributed file system like
Odyssey/CODA. If it were left to me I would have ordered PCs but the
Netras are 64 bit and this would be interesting exercise in its own
right.

I would like to firewall all activity on these boxes using four(?)
Gentoo boxes running IPTABLES/NETFILTER. Any efficient design to put
this together would be very helpful. What would be the best way to enter
the cluster from the outside (University/Internet) and restrict all
meaningful traffic to within the cluster?

Is gentoo planning on supporting multiple architectures in the near
future esp. 64 bit? That would really be amazing!

Looking forward to your suggestions,
Warm Regards,
A Gentoo Afficionado and Evangelist,
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