Stuart,<br><br>There are two inter-related but distinguishable issues here; why build a system at home? and what can you do with a (HPC) system at home? I'm going to take you literally and just address the 2nd question.<br>
<br>"Home Hacking" can be used by Home Science or Home Mathematics. Examples of research projects that are organized by professional researchers, but can be joined by anyone with a home computer who wishes to contribute whatever idle CPU time he's got, is at this list:<br>
<br> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_projects">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_projects</a><br><br>The most familiar one nowadays is "Folding@Home" but there were mathematicians doing arithmetic algebraic geometry this way in the early 90's.<br>
<br>If you like building computers but don't have any use for them, send them to me :-)<br><br>Peter (Ersatz home computational mathematician)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:52 AM, lsi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stuart@cyberdelix.net">stuart@cyberdelix.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Cute, but my question is, what use is one of these homegrown<br>
platforms?<br>
<br>
Certainly if it was commercialised that would be a beasty compute<br>
appliance... but that's not my question - I'm asking, what is the<br>
role of the home hacker in the HPC world?<br>
<br>
I mean, it's fine to go and make one of these things, but once you've<br>
made it, what do you use it for?<br>
<br>
I ask as I presently have a "grid engine in a briefcase" sitting idle<br>
in my cupboard, fun to make but as I have no datasets to crunch, it's<br>
not even particularly good-looking eye candy!<br>
<br>
I joined this list to get the answer to this question...<br>
<br>
Stu<br>
<br>
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