Wow, Michael, I just looked at your site and find your remaster quite amazing! Now, let me get this straight. Your remaster is unlike clusterKNOPPIX and QUANTIAN as its not openMOSIX based. So, am I correct in assuming this is like a Beowulf implementation? Is that what the LAM-MPI and MPICH packages are designed for? Please excuse my noobishness (that's a word?), but the only clustering I've done is based on MOSIX.

I think I would like to investigate MPI programming some more, however. I'd like to give my java students a cool final project involving clustering an app that they themselves have written from scratch. I have not found java support for MOSIX, however. So my students have run existing apps like KANDEL and POVRAY but not written their own code to solve a problem of their own choosing. We did play with C and MPI once using the fork() method, but the learning curve was a bit much for my students.

I do see some research on the web regarding the use of java with MPI or PVM that looks intriguing. So I think I'll try out your distro some more. What is astounding about your remaster - asside from its unique approach in the KNOPPIX remaster world (ie: no MOSIX) - is that yours is the only one that has been updated to a KNOPPIX 3.7 base! I don't know what the other remasters are waiting for, but they seem to be sitting around and not supporting their projects of late.

What do you think of all this? Do you think I could use your CD with java? What I'd like to do is install your system to hdd as a more standard linux rw fs and add java functionality to it. Have you used knoppix-installer with your system? BTW, I see that your ISO is down to about 500MB. So there should be plenty of room for adding to it if I want to do that too. Just curious, what did you remove? I see you removed all but en lang support, that must save a lot of space! I suppose you got rid of games too, is that correct? What else, if I may ask?

BTW, thanx Michael Creel, for all your work!

TIA,
AJG