FEA computing cluster?

[hygear]

My office is in the process of upgrading to new engineering workstations and the old workstations will be recycled for another purpose. We have 4-5 workstations that are only a few years old, so I was thinking of converting them into a cluster for FEA work.

Has anyone ever done this before? Is it worth the time to setup?

 

[looslib]

Might be easier to spend $2K on a 1U small box quad-core server with 8-16G of memory and use that for your FEA stuff. No graphics card, just compute power. Add a second processor if you have high CPU usage.


"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli