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Re: Work for a home super computer



 > On 10/29/07, [hidden email] <[hidden email]> wrote: 
>> I'm sitting home, taking a day off from work because I'm not feeling 
>> well, 
>> and am wondering... 
>> 
>> I have a bunch of computers, some too old to give away, but a few which 
>> are still not too shabby, twp 2.5 GHZ AMD 2200/2400 Athlons and a an 
>> Intel 
>> 2.5ghn pentium something, plus my personal computer Athlon X2 dual core. 
>> 
>> If done a bunch of clusters and web farms professionally,  but at home, 
>> what is a rational pursuit that could justify the effort? 
>> 
>> Any interesting problems or "for profit" tasks that I could target? 
> 
> Run distributed.net and hope that your machines guess the key and win 
> the prize :) 


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