Somewhat OT: Top 500 list

[Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO]

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, folding at home,
one of the other protein folding clients.   Those  folding clients may
actually help people down the road.  
 
Start here:
http://www.ibiblio.org/gferg/ldp/Distributed-Computing-HOWTO/  for a
list of projects.
 
 

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	-----Original Message-----
	From:  On Behalf Of James Sissel
	Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 10:14 AM
	
	
	This LUG supercomputer sounds interesting.  But what great
social use would we dedicate it to solve (other than figuring out future
Lotto winning numbers).
	
	"Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO" <brian.kelsay at kcc.usda.gov>
wrote: 

		It is quite possible that we could have a LUG cluster of
either of those
		boards. If members donated money to purchase or several
people each
		purchased a board and donated, with someone donating
switches, wire,
		metal, HDD, CF cards, UPS, like in the article I sent,
we could build
		something tasty.
		


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