Somewhat OT: Top 500 list

[Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO]

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.
 
Check out www.grid.org .  Apparently some of the distributed.net team
and a few SETI at home guys got jobs there at  United Devices
www.uniteddevices.com, who also does grid.org as a non-profit project. 

 


 

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	Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 12:50 PM
	To: Kclug at kclug.org
	Subject: RE: Somewhat OT: Top 500 list
	
	
	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: 

		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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