Big BLU Super Computer

[miah]

Have you not been reading anything I've posted?  I'm quite sure that
the folding at home and Seti are going to work the same way dnetc is, its
not going to perform any better on the cluster than it is on 10
computers on the same switch.

How about doing something worthwhile instead?

Experience is good and all, but why go through the pain of setting up
a cluster if you don't even have something good to do with it
afterwards.  If you build a cluter, and have nothing to do with it
afterwards, how are you going to test it properly?

Does BLU already have a 'group' of people working on dnetc, or seti?
Many people already have groups, and they don't have a cluster.  You
can gain rep this way.  But also, who gives a shit about 'rep'.

-miah

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 09:56:46AM -0400, Jeff Kinz wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 08:38:48AM -0400, Billy SG McCarthy wrote:
> > 
> > I'd say that's the first thing that needs to be done, find a use/need for
> > it.  Then work out the logistics of building and maintaining it.
> 
> The badass nature of a cluster and the experience of building it 
> should be a sufficiently compelling reason to run it.
> 
> Other reasons:
> 
> Advance global medical knowledge - 
> 	participate in "folding at home" ( real name?)
> 
> Gain rep for blug - participate in:	
> 			SETI
> 			various crypto breaking contests
> 
> Be Charitable:
> 	Donate processing time to non-profit research
> 	(perhaps problematic)
> 
> 
> -- 
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> 
> Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA.
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