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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=023580817-17112005>I know
that finding primes and cracking encryption is not considered sexy,
but that is one basic thing you can use to test your computing cluster.
After that you could move to the SETI client, <A
href="mailto:folding@home">folding@home</A>, one of the other protein folding
clients. Those folding clients may actually help people down
the road. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=023580817-17112005>Start
here: <A
href="http://www.ibiblio.org/gferg/ldp/Distributed-Computing-HOWTO/">http://www.ibiblio.org/gferg/ldp/Distributed-Computing-HOWTO/</A>
for a list of projects.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>*******************************************<BR>If the automobile
had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would
today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year,
killing everyone inside. - Robert X. Cringely<BR></FONT></P>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> <B>On
Behalf Of </B>James Sissel<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, November 17, 2005 10:14
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<DIV id=RTEContent>This LUG supercomputer sounds interesting. But what
great social use would we dedicate it to solve (other than figuring out future
Lotto winning numbers).<BR><BR><B><I>"Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO"
<brian.kelsay@kcc.usda.gov></I></B> wrote:
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid">It
is quite possible that we could have a LUG cluster of either of
those<BR>boards. If members donated money to purchase or several people
each<BR>purchased a board and donated, with someone donating switches,
wire,<BR>metal, HDD, CF cards, UPS, like in the article I sent, we could
build<BR>something tasty.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>