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Long Haired Git · 06-20-2005, 12:42 AM

The whole point of {x}@home was to make use of spare computing cycles of existing PCs otherwise left on.
Right now in this building there would be over 4000 PCs, all of which are left on overnight, and all of which exist and have been paid for.
I'm trying to get some seed money to port our VAR engine to a distributed platform so instead of maintaining 40+ dedicated servers we just run it as a screen saver on the PCs over night.

No way we'd get Folding@Home installed and operational though. We can't see the code, it talks to the internet and sociability on Win32 platforms is a continuous battle....

Shame, I could start my own team, and with 10k PCs in the Syd CBD area alone, I'd do pretty well...

06-20-2005, 12:42 AM	#18
Long Haired Git Cooling Savant Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Sydney, Oz Posts: 336	The whole point of {x}@home was to make use of spare computing cycles of existing PCs otherwise left on. Right now in this building there would be over 4000 PCs, all of which are left on overnight, and all of which exist and have been paid for. I'm trying to get some seed money to port our VAR engine to a distributed platform so instead of maintaining 40+ dedicated servers we just run it as a screen saver on the PCs over night. No way we'd get Folding@Home installed and operational though. We can't see the code, it talks to the internet and sociability on Win32 platforms is a continuous battle.... Shame, I could start my own team, and with 10k PCs in the Syd CBD area alone, I'd do pretty well... __________________ Long Haired Git "Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted." (Prof. Gene Spafford) My Rig, in all its glory, can be seen best here AMD XP1600 @ 1530 Mhz \| Soyo Dragon + \| 256 Mb PC2700 DDRAM \| 2 x 40 Gb 7200rpm in Raid-0 \| Maze 2, eheim 1250, dual heater cores! \| Full specifications (PCDB)