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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=303392419-17112005>If you
get the clusterKnoppix LiveCD, there is at least one prime calculating client on
the disk IIRC. That is supposed to be for testing the cluster. You
boot one unit to the LiveCD or to it loaded on a HDD to be the master node, and
the other units are set to bootp or PXE and they connect up to the master node
on boot. Obviously, there are many ways to make this work and
clusterKnoppix is not the only answer.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=303392419-17112005>Check
out <A href="http://www.grid.org">www.grid.org</A> . Apparently some of
the distributed.net team and a few <A href="mailto:SETI@home">SETI@home</A> guys
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size=3> </FONT><A href="http://www.uniteddevices.com"
name=ss3.1>www.uniteddevices.com</A>, who also does grid.org as a non-profit
project.</FONT></FONT>
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face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
kclug-bounces@kclug.org [mailto:kclug-bounces@kclug.org] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>James Sissel<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, November 17, 2005 12:50
PM<BR><B>To:</B> Kclug@kclug.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: Somewhat OT: Top 500
list<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV id=RTEContent>I love those projects and I'm involved in 4 of them.
SETI - looking for ET, Einstein - looking for gravity waves, folding proteins,
and climate forecasting. I've got anywhere from 1-3 PCs dedicated to
them at all times. But that's distributed computing and not a
supercomputer.<BR><BR>Do you think KU or UMKC might have a suitable project
for a small supercomputer? Or how about some of our local medical
research companies? Maybe we could offer it to Channel 9 so they can get
our local weather forecasts right (tongue in cheek).<BR><BR><B><I>"Kelsay,
Brian - Kansas City, MO" <brian.kelsay@kcc.usda.gov></I></B> wrote:
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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
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