On 30 Dec 2001 jwbirdsa_at_picarefy.com wrote:
> Supposing one has a farm of older, relatively slower machines (Sun-2's,
> Sun-3's, early SPARCs, 386es, very small VAXen, 68k-based Macs, etc.)
> running various Unixes (mostly NetBSD), networked together and connected
> to the Net. What does one do with it?
>
> I've been trying to think of some interesting, moderately useful
> distributed-computing project that they could sit and crank away at
> and haven't come up with much of anything. All the distributed projects
> that I know of are distributed because even fast machines aren't enough by
> themselves -- a trailing-edge farm can't make a useful contribution.
Well, if you want, email Jeff Fisher guppy_at_techmonkeys.org, and tell him
about your farm. I work with the group of coders _at_techmonkeys.org, and am
in the process of setting up some Sun3/Sun4, SGI, and VAX hardware for a
another small compile/development farm for open source software. I'm
somewhat limited space wise, as I have to pack everything into a 12x16
building, but it's possible.
You might also want to get in touch with the people with the Samba group,
http://www.samba.org/ specifically Andrew Bartlett abartlet_at_samba.org and
donate cpu time to their build farm
http://build.samba.org/ too. I'm
planning to do this with my machines once my new building is finished.
-Toth
Received on Mon Dec 31 2001 - 00:01:41 GMT