[lug] Super Computer

[J. Wayde Allen]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Charles Morrison wrote:

> I have at least one computer I can donate to the cause. It would be nice 
> to be able to house this somewhere interested people can access it via 
> the internet. Unfortunately, I only have dial up access (and slow dial 
> up at that, 24k is a good session).

A solid internet connection would certainly be nice, but I'm not too
certain that a dialup link wouldn't be OK.  The idea is to go through the
steps of installing the software, getting it running, and demonstrating
that it works.  A dialup node "could" probably still participate.  It just
wouldn't provide the fastest answer.  My meager understanding is that
you'd only need the link for downloading the piece of the job assigned by
the task manager, and uploading the answer once the local computation is
complete.

> There are other tools that might be worthwhile working with too, like 
> "System Imager", "Big Brother" and other tools for managing clusters.

Most certainly!

- Wayde
  (wallen at lug.boulder.co.us)