(Stress-)Testing of nodes in a beowulf cluster

[Ken]

Steven Timm wrote:
> 
> At Fermilab in our PC Farms our cluster is not a true Beowulf,
> but we do an extensive stress test of 30 days.  Our test
> consists of continuously running seti at home 

This has a build in 'torture' test:
http://www.mersenne.org/links.htm

It has been optimized several times and typically uses close to 100% of
clock cyles available.  

Ken