[rescue] Trailing-edge compute farm looking for gainful employment

[David Rouse]

On Sunday, December 30, 2001, at 06:20  PM, jwbirdsa at picarefy.com wrote:
>
>    I've been trying to think of some interesting, moderately useful
> distributed-computing project that they could sit and crank away at
> and haven't come up with much of anything. All the distributed projects
> that I know of are distributed because even fast machines aren't enough 
> by
> themselves -- a trailing-edge farm can't make a useful contribution.
>

I'd disagree there. It has taken me a long time, but I've plugged away 
at seti and now I'm at the 90% percentile -- and I complete a work unit 
on average every 75.5 hours (*very* slow). My group consists of a 
ss1000, an IPX and a PowerMacintosh 6100/60. I did for a time have a 
orginal iMac (233 MHz), but that's the fastest machine I've ever had on 
the team.

Every little bit helps, as several distributed projects have stated, 
don't feel like you can't contribute. Your problem might be finding a 
project that supports your platforms, but the speed of the computers 
themselves shouldn't be a henderance to participating.

Here is a good list of projects (with flags for those that support 
Solaris).

http://www.aspenleaf.com/distributed/distrib-projects.html

or...

http://distcomp.rynok.org/

--
David Rouse