[plug] Free Electronic Waste Recycling

[Fred Janon]

Good idea, I might look into that.
 
Fred

--- On Thu, 5/21/09, Adrian Chadd <adrian at creative.net.au> wrote:


From: Adrian Chadd <adrian at creative.net.au>
Subject: Re: [plug] Free Electronic Waste Recycling
To: plug at plug.org.au
Date: Thursday, May 21, 2009, 11:30 AM


It may be cheaper to just pay for some Amazon EC2 cluster time to get a whole
lot of CPUs and do your testing as briefly as possible.

Unless power and cooling is cheap for you :)



Adrian

On Wed, May 20, 2009, Fred Janon wrote:
> Sorry Jason,?I don't quite see how Beowulf relates to my email? Coherence is a Java library that?managed distributed objects. I use that in a proof of concept for one of my projects. I need to benchmark the application with a different number of computers and different configurations.
> ?
> We can take that off-line since it's not related to the subject anymore.
> ?
> Cheers
> ?
> Fred
> 
> --- On Thu, 5/21/09, Jason Posavec <jasonposavec at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> 
> 
> From: Jason Posavec <jasonposavec at iinet.net.au>
> Subject: Re: [plug] Free Electronic Waste Recycling
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Date: Thursday, May 21, 2009, 8:46 AM
> 
> 
> Fred Janon wrote:
> > If anyone has some working computers (with memory, drive, ethernet and video card) that they want to get rid off, please let me know. I am in need of a few computers to test some software that parallelize processing across computers (Coherence from Oracle). Don't need top of the line stuff.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Fred
> > 
> 
> Beowulf wasn't up to the task?
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