Somewhat OT: Top 500 list
James Sissel
jimsissel at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 17 12:49:30 CST 2005
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.
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).
"Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO" <brian.kelsay at kcc.usda.gov> wrote:Message 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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