Company computer utilization?

Steven Timm timm at fnal.gov
Wed Jul 17 12:13:27 PDT 2002


SCE, which was developed in a Thai university, claims to be able to
do something like that.. actually they just have a floppy that the
user sticks in when they are done at night, and reboots the machine
across the net to run Linux diskless.  But I have never tried it
personally.

Steve


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Steven C. Timm (630) 840-8525  timm at fnal.gov  http://home.fnal.gov/~timm/
Fermilab Computing Division/Operating Systems Support
Scientific Computing Support Group--Computing Farms Operations

On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Lambe, Dave wrote:

> OK, it would require user intervention at closing time, but what about a
> Linux load on a bootable CD. Something along the lines of DemoLinux with all
> the fluff (like X, Slovakian Man-page support, etc.) stripped and your apps
> added? Could it be done within the constraints of 700Mb CD?
>
> Again, pardon my ignorance here. I'm interested to see where this goes as we
> are in need of cycles and in a similar situation as Todd.
>
> Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henderson, TL Todd [mailto:Todd_Henderson at isl-3com.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 1:58 PM
> To: 'beowulf at beowulf.org'
> Subject: RE: Company computer utilization?
>
>
> Unfortunately, the application is nothing like a SETI situation where nodes
> can work independantly.  The communications required are low, but they are
> needed and the nodes must work together.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rocky McGaugh [mailto:rocky at atipa.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 11:49 AM
> > To: Lambe, Dave
> > Cc: 'beowulf at beowulf.org'
> > Subject: RE: Company computer utilization?
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Lambe, Dave wrote:
> >
> > > Pardon my ignorance here, BUT....
> > >
> > > What about some type of "grid" computing similar to SETI?
> > It would only need
> > > a client installed that could be configured to run when the
> > PC had been idle
> > > for "X" minutes/hours and would SURELY be simpler to implement than
> > > re-loading "100's of P4 and P4 Xeon boxes". The later is
> > surely to irk
> > > someone with stroke to get the whole project kinked.
> > >
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
> >
> > Sure, if he had windows binaries.
> >
> > --
> > Rocky McGaugh
> > Atipa Technologies
> > rocky at atipatechnologies.com
> > rmcgaugh at atipa.com
> > 1-785-841-9513 x3110
> > http://1087800222/
> > perl -e 'print unpack(u, ".=W=W+F%T:7\!A+F-O;0H`");'
> >
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