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Interesting Distributed Computing Project

  • 30-09-2011 12:18AM
    #1
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    Hi all.

    I have access to an office worth of computers. 20 or so desktops. I would like to pick your brains for ideas to do something cool with them. Something beyond calculating pi for example. Just something cool to say "hey, that's pretty cool".


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  • #2
    Spear
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    And you have explicit permission to run a distributed computing app on them? Your employer doesn't mind the increased heat and electrical consumption?

    If so, consider:

    Running LHC beam simualtions for CERN:

    http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrack/
    http://boinc01.cern.ch/test4theory/

    Find Prime numbers:

    http://www.primegrid.com/

    Search the skies for Orbit@Home:

    http://orbit.psi.edu/


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    Spear wrote: »
    And you have explicit permission to run a distributed computing app on them? Your employer doesn't mind the increased heat and electrical consumption?
    I am the boss :P

    I was thinking more along the lines of developing something small myself. The best I can come up with so far is experimenting with the travelling salesman.


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    bonzodog2
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    In the meantime, get folding !


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    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    In the meantime, get folding !
    No.


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