Re: [MLUG] Help with computing project

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

For a while when I worked at Stephens College I was putting the
distributed.net screensaver on all the computers I worked on.. it actually
allowed some special feature I'd been asked to figure out how to make
happen so that was a good excuse.. so anytime any PC on the whole campus
was idle it was throwing cycles at the dist.net project which I thought
was pretty cool. For a while the daily ranking was in the <100 position
which is pretty good I think. It seems they've slowly been switched off
though as time has gone on. To bad. :)

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Michael McGlothlin <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
http://www.nomadphones.org

On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Jonathan King wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Jonathan King wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> >
> > > Michael Procter wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Another question -- if I run the client on two boxes behind a firewall which
> > > > would appear to have the same IP address, will your server be able to tell
> > > > them apart or just get confused?
> > > >
> > >
> > > That is no problem.  I am doing the same myself.
> >
> > Presumably okay to invoke it as "./darts-client &"?
> >
> > jking
> 
> OK, so two of my elephants are spinning cycles, throwing darts.  After I
> finish preparing a lecture or two (cough), I can dry to get another six
> or so Linux boxes with the program, and they'd be up by the weekend.
> 
> But to think a bit bigger for a minute...would this program work okay on
> an NT (or similar) box under cygwin?  If so, you might be able to take
> advantage of some serious spare cycles around campus.  Here in the psych
> department, we have (I'm guessing) dozens of PCs that could be enslaved if
> there was an automatic enough way to do the job.  Installing cygwin could,
> I think, be justified on other grounds, and is pretty easy (although,
> alas, it requires your physical presence).  Then I *think* you could fire
> up cygwin at start-up, and in particular have its sshd port listening.
> Then when somebody has a serious computational job that "clientizes" well,
> they could push the new code at the slaves and start them up via ssh.
> 
> But, hey, why stop there?  At at university like MU that lacks some of
> your more serious computational facilities but has scads and scads of now
> pretty powerful (and shockingly idle) PCS, you could take this campus-wide
> through departments and it could be a pretty interesting project.  Anybody
> know of anything similar elsewhere?  I just did a back of an envelope
> calculation, and I think somebody could propose this as a research board
> project (to start) and then move up from there.
> 
> Of course, I'm not sure how much this will help your darts program in the
> short term. :-)  Specifically, I just tried to make darts-client under
> cygwin and got fatal errors that I can't debug at the moment. :-(
> 
> jking
> 
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