Wow...

Great responses everybody! Thanks much for all the links and info!
This should keep me busy with learning material for quite a while.

Robert, Initially I think I'm looking at about a dozen machines, as one of my housemates has a line on getting some older p2's in that quantity on the cheap. However, as hardware becomes available, and I get more experienced in these matters, that number will likely rise significantly. At present, I have unused, climate controlled space for perhaps 100, if I build my own racks for them, and another equivalent space that could be made usable. It's all a matter of cash, parts availablity, and, of course, the knowledge to get it all up and running.

Thanks to all for the great info!

--Druegan

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I'd love to have a convenient farm manager for linux... Anybody heard / knows about one?
I guess I can always make a script that generates an HTML status report pretty easily, and the let cron run it every once in a while, but then... If something a bit more "professional" exists, I'd love to test it out =)

Cheers =)

- trib'

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Wow...

Great responses everybody! Thanks much for all the links and info!
This should keep me busy with learning material for quite a while.

Robert, Initially I think I'm looking at about a dozen machines, as one of my housemates has a line on getting some older p2's in that quantity on the cheap. However, as hardware becomes available, and I get more experienced in these matters, that number will likely rise significantly. At present, I have unused, climate controlled space for perhaps 100, if I build my own racks for them, and another equivalent space that could be made usable. It's all a matter of cash, parts availablity, and, of course, the knowledge to get it all up and running.

Thanks to all for the great info!

--Druegan

Wow...! Possibly 100 machines? Man...can we use part of Dr. Baker's picnic money he promised us and host that over at your house? We could do what Jimmy Carter does on weekends with Habitat for Humanity except we'll all bring our hammers and lumber and build your shelving system. Hey, I'll bribe you if you decide to join my team...hehe. :-)

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Founder of BOINC GROUP - Objectivists - Philosophically minded rational data crunchers.

Win2K (at XPC - http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=46) is working on a BONIC network manager - it didn't start life as that but it seems to be heading that way!

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