What is the cheapest way of connecting 15 cpu's to one monitor?

[fjr at marsdome.penguinpowered.com (Frank Ramsay)]

Kevin,
  I have worked on massivily parallel computers in the past (IBM SP-2's
to be exact) They way IBM handles this is the nodes of the system
are headless, with all administration taking place via rsh sessions.  
I'd suggest that unless you really _need_ a monitor/keyboard/mouse on 
each machine, to just designate one machine as the admin node and 
make the others headless.

				-fjr


"Kevin M. Gleason" wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just got the college to loan me 16 Compaq P100's to build a (alright
> slow) Beowulf cluster and I have a bunch of mouses, monitors, and
> keyboards that I don't think I need. Is there a switch that I can buy
> that will reduce all of this hardware to quantity ONE? If so, get where
> and how much should I budget?
> Thanks,
> 
> Kevin
> 
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