I recently installed SLES 9.2 on one of my systems and have been moving over my administrative shell scripts from my old SCO OpenServer system to the Linux one. Both PCs are the same exact model and after I completely migrate all the tasks over to Linux, the SCO box will be useless (not that it wasn't from the beginning .)

My question, is it plausible or even worth bothering turning the SCO box into a SLES cluster for my Linux box? Having the double hardware would help balance the load of the web server and the data deployment I am running via NFS.

If it efficient to do so, what open source solutions are there that can take advantage of? Of course I could make one PC the web server and the other my data deployment server, but I also don't want to do double the maintenance and tweaking. I want the 2 PC's to be able to share resources and execute requests in parallel.

Any help or information would be greatly appreciated.

now it's not going to double your performace or anything and how efficient it is depends on what your doing (in order for 1 app to take advantage of a cluster it has to be writen for that purpose so the advantage is in multitasking) but check out openMosix it automaticly balances the load over a cluster (when it would help) I would use this with ssh, nis, and nfs so that all the systems have the same home directories and users.