Can I tether 9 PowerMac g5's running osx 10.5.6 via FireWire to act as one giant server?

Hello, I currently have 9 PoweMac G5's and one 1st generation Mac Pro laying around, all running OS X 10.5.8 and I wanted to know I it would be possible to install OS X server on all of them and tether them together via FireWire to run as one server.

It depends on what you mean by tether and one giant server? One Giant Server is a question that potentially covers a lot of ground and unless you give more specifics on what your thinking is it's not one that's easily answered.
However using firewire allows connectivity over TCP/IP or Target Disk Mode (TDM). As you know TCP/IP is a network protocol and TDM offers functionality for using the connected computer as an externally connected hard drive and not much else on the active mac the other macs are connected to. I suppose you could 'design' a network that has all 10 macs connected and 'clustered' in a way that harnasses processing power on all of them (think SETI program) to do the limited specific tasks OSX Server supports. Anything more would be dependant on your skills. But then why would you use firewire when ethernet would be the more obvious and faster thing to use anyway.
I think the 'best' you can do to run them as one giant server over firewire is to TDM them to your most powerful mac (the MacPro) and simply share the hard drives. But why would you do that? It would be more efficient and cost effective to simply load the four drives bays on your MacPro with the largest drives it supports (2TB or 3TB) and use those instead.
Either way all you'd have would be a single file server and not much else.

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