Hi,
Dinesh A. Joshi wrote:
1. Purpose of the old Windows machines
They were using old windows machines for Excel, Word, Tally, two accounting softwares developed in VB and access. Which we still need to convert for linux.
2. What are their requirements?
I didnot get you properly. However, these all applications or their replacement should run properly on Linux. This is their basic requirement.
3. What are their _expectations_ from the Linux machines?
same as above
4. What would be the job of the other 46-47 machines?
They will be used as thinclients. All users will work on those machines. They will bootup on server.
5. What kind of cluster are you looking at?
I heard that Google uses normal computers as a server. So I thought of this, instead of using single server we will use normal PCs. May be it is called paralle processing cluster.
6. Define: "their collective output"?
Their collective output means if i am using 3 computers of 1 Ghz processor and 512 MB RAM each. Then after clustering I should get power of 3 Ghz & 1.5 GB RAM.
7. What infrastructure do they have? Do they have a n/w?
yes they have 100MB/s network.