new on the grid. I am building a home beowulf cluster, will boinc be able to utilize it?

With a client running on it? Would be possible if you installed the client on each individual computer. It won't work to have the client see the whole cluster as one computer.

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I had plans to do this with a bunch of old computers. I ended up just building a new machine with better specs instead. However, this was my plan:

-Create a custom PXE Ubuntu image, with BOINC already installed and logged into my BOINC account manager (I don't actually know how to do this yet, it was just planned to learn how)
-Host custom PXE image on a server, or NAS of some sort
-Enable Network boot on machines, route them to boot from the custom PXE image
-bonus points if I could do this with the 'dummy' machines being all disk-less and running everything from RAM.

Probably would have needed a DD-WRT router for some of this (maybe).

In the end it was more trouble than it was worth. But maybe this will give you some ideas.