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 Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 10:38 pm |
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| lenny |
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So I have recently come into possession of 11 computers. 7 of them are Evesham boxes (~1.4GHz, 256MB RAM) from around 2004, and 4 of them are from around 2006 (~1.6GHz, 256MB+ RAM).
I don't really have a use for these machines, but it seems a shame to have them sitting around doing nothing - so my question is this: What can i do with 11 reasonably old computers? Any ideas would be appreciated :p
So far I can only think of clustering them together, but I don't have any computing that I can distribute over the cluster  |
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| Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 2:38 am |
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| capt |
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You can send one to me  lol |
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| Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 8:22 am |
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| vince213333 |
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| Use them to perform work for something like SETI@home? :') nah honestly, I wouldn't know... I'd use some of them as file servers and others for messing around without having to worry about viruses spreading all over your network. |
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| Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 4:25 pm |
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| lenny |
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Ooooh, I like the SETI@home idea.... actually I'm tempted to put the free rainbow tables distributed cracker (http://www.freerainbowtables.com) on them... I think I'll set aside a machine as a server as well.
Any other ideas?
Thanks! |
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| Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 7:10 pm |
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| vince213333 |
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I like the RT project idea  been thinking about it too a while ago... |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 9:41 pm |
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| lenny |
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Update:
Got the 7 evesham boxes up and running, apparently they run at 2.4GHz - a LOT heftier than the 1.4GHz that I expected! Still haven't got the 4 other machines working yet.
Currently trying to install the latest release of Ubuntu that includes some cloud computing technology... does anybody know if the nodes are required to have Intel-VT extensions or if its simply reccomended?
Once I have them up and running, I'll start it running DistRTgen for a week or so and see how they do. I worked out the consumption of these machines, and its quite expensive to run them apparently according to my calculations!
I think Im going to set up at least one of them to be a lab target box, and use it for practice  |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 10:15 pm |
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| vince213333 |
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| Can't help you with the nodes question, but let us know the results soon ^^ |
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| Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 7:03 am |
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| pjmaybe |
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| call the first seven of them sleepy droopy moopy and all that shit, then the first one should be snow white, then the prince, then you could call one the witch (paint this one black or brown) then there is one more....lets call that one terry |
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