Re: Work for a home super computer

["Jarod Wilson" <user=74@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Monday 29 October 2007 12:16:12 pm [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? 

Some time ago, I went to the effort of setting up a dvdrip cluster. 

http://exit1.org/dvdrip/doc/cluster.cipp

Not really worth the effort/power cost/etc., anymore to me vs. just letting 
one reasonably fast machine (read: core 2 quad) do the job by itself, but it 
was a fun exercise. 

> Any interesting problems or "for profit" tasks that I could target? 

http://www.cpushare.com/

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Jarod Wilson 
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