Big BLU Super Computer

[markw at mohawksoft.com]

Well, I got one response so far, and since the alternative is actually
working on what I'm supposed to be working on, I guess I exapnd on the
idea.

Some number of computers. I think we should try to keep them fairly new
(PIII class or higher, 500MHZ or more, because lets face it, a Pentium 133
is more or less wasted space.)

Lets try to keep to a basic size. Mega towers take up too much space.

Anyone have a choice of distribution? mandrake, Debian, Re~~Fedora, slack?

Anyone have any ideas for projects? I have said, in a different post, that
I was thinking about neural network searching. Perhaps we can work on a
distributed neural net. Try to mimic learning?





> Message: 3
> From: markw at mohawksoft.com
> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:44:25 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: Big BLU Super Computer
> To: discuss at blu.org
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> Does BLU have any sort of permenant system running anyware?  Do you guys
> have an office or anything?
>
> The reason I was wondering is that, I bet we all have some spare computers
> and stuff lying around, wouldn't it be cool if we could construct
> something like "Big BLU,"  the BLU beowulf cluster. I bet that would be a
> fun project. (Think about the "stone soup" super computer.)
>
> I've got a couple industrial grade 100MB switches, a spool of CAT5,
> connectors, crimpers, some computers, and a LOT of spare parts.
>
> Is anyone interrested?
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