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On Monday 29 October 2007 12:16:12 pm [hidden email] wrote: > I'm sitting home, taking a day off from work because I'm not feeling well, > and am wondering... > > I have a bunch of computers, some too old to give away, but a few which > are still not too shabby, twp 2.5 GHZ AMD 2200/2400 Athlons and a an Intel > 2.5ghn pentium something, plus my personal computer Athlon X2 dual core. > > If done a bunch of clusters and web farms professionally, but at home, > what is a rational pursuit that could justify the effort? Some time ago, I went to the effort of setting up a dvdrip cluster. http://exit1.org/dvdrip/doc/cluster.cipp Not really worth the effort/power cost/etc., anymore to me vs. just letting one reasonably fast machine (read: core 2 quad) do the job by itself, but it was a fun exercise. > Any interesting problems or "for profit" tasks that I could target? http://www.cpushare.com/ -- Jarod Wilson [hidden email] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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