[plug] Ideas for older computers?

[Bret Busby]

On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Patrick Tehvand wrote:

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> Hi all,
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> We have just decommissioned a lab of computers and once I weed out the 
> dead/dying ones I should have between 15-20 machines with the following 
> specs:
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> IBM Netvista/pc300
> pIII 600
>> 6Gb disk
> 512Mb ram
> 100Mb ethernet
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> Just wondering if anyone has any ideas on a project that would be worth doing 
> with them at some point. Perhaps as a  PLUG project to get people involved? 
> Was thinking of playing around with clustering or making a rendering farm or 
> something?
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> Cheers
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> Patrick Tehvand
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Two suggestions:

1. Beowulf distributed processing for yeti project.

2. Beowulf distributed processing for cracking latest uncracked 
encryption level (84 or 128 bits, or whatever it is).

3. Beowulf distributed processing to create AI system, to create your 
own Deep Thought system, to find the solution to Life, the Universe and 
Everything (and, get an answer different to 42).

--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
  you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
   Chapter 28 of
   "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
   A Trilogy In Four Parts",
   written by Douglas Adams,
   published by Pan Books, 1992

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